Guitar Player Quotes

• Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

  Ted Nugent

  Player, Guitar, Years

  "America Nuge". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 17, 2002.

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• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  B. B. King

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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• Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

  Steve Vai

  Being In Love, Player, Guitar

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.

  Jeff Beck

  Guitar, Years, People

  FaceBook post by Jeff Beck from Jul 27, 2010

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  If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

  Keith Richards

  Guitar, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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• I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Hate, Moving, Player

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• I'm not a good guitar player.

  Adam Jones

  Player, Guitar, Gamer

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• A good player can make any guitar sound good.

  Mike Bloomfield

  Music, Player, Guitar

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  The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Music, Sacrifice

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• You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Animal, Player, Guitar

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• As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

  Brad Paisley

  Song, Writing, Player

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

  Dick Dale

  Father, Player, Guitar

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• For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.

  Scott Henderson

  Player, Expression, Intellectual

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• And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

  James Iha

  Player, Guitar, Records

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• I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!

  Tom Verlaine

  Player, Guitar, Sound

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• But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.

  Charlie Hunter

  Player, Guitar, Needs

  "Charlie Hunter: Living The Music". Interview with Paul Olson, www.allaboutjazz.com. September 26, 2005.

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• I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

  Adam Jones

  Player, Guitar, Band

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• I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

  John Lee Hooker

  Mean, Guitar Music, Play

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• I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

  Elvis Presley

  Music, Witty, Humorous

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)

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• As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

  Boz Scaggs

  Player, Guitar, Style

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• To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

  Sammy Hagar

  Player, Guitar, Singers

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• I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

  Richard Thompson

  Player, Guitar, People

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• Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Player, Guitar, Reputation

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• I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

  Hunter Hayes

  Player, Guitar, Theory

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