Electric Guitar Quotes

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  I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Guitar, Wish, Cotton

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• The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.

  Frank Zappa

  Guitar, Ideas, Good Times

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• My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

  Joan Jett

  Guitar, Who I Am, Persona

  FaceBook post by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts from Sep 17, 2013

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• I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

  David Lynch

  Guitar, Doe, Working It

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• The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.

  Keith Richards

  Guitar, Helping, Electric

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• I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

  Michael Gira

  Guitar, Sound, Loud

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why I like it . . . The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that’s my idea of a good time.

  Frank Zappa

  Guitar, Ideas, Earth

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• The use of electronics is a natural extension of the instrument - it is an electric guitar. So we guitarists have been plugging into something since 1931, and we are not about to stop now. Current advances in technology means we can have a huge array of sounds at our fingertips, and this offers amazing possibilities to the contemporary composer. It is always a guitar (I don't play synthesizer) but it becomes something else all together - more like sculpting sound in real time using metal wires, 5 fingers and a pick.

  Tim Brady

  Real, Mean, Technology

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• I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

  Ace Frehley

  Guitar, House, One Day

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• Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Guitar, Pants

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• Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

  Dan Auerbach

  Kids, Guitar, Years

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• If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars aren't good for learning lead, because you can't play up very high on the neck and they take heavier-gauge strings which makes it hard to bend notes

  Eddie Van Halen

  Music, Guitar, Play

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• All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

  Chuck Berry

  Rocks, Guitar, Want

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• I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to be a totally fascinating plank of wood with knobs and switches on it. I just had to have one.

  Jeff Beck

  Guitar, Differences, Woods

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• In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence

  Ry Cooder

  Music, Taken, Guitar

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• Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Rocks, Guitar

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• On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

  Tommy Shaw

  Real, Keys, Guitar

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• Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Rocks, Guitar, Piano

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• Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

  Andres Segovia

  Guitar, Singers, Violin

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• I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.

  Mark Knopfler

  Play, Guitar, Bass

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• I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

  Dan Auerbach

  Dog, Brother, Guitar

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• Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.

  Barney Kessel

  Music, Christian, Guitar

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• Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.

  Steve Coogan

  Confused, War, Guitar

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 17, 2009.

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• Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Guitar, People

  "Patti Smith Remembers Life With Mapplethorpe". Interview with Deborah Amos, www.npr.org. January 15, 2010.

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