Guitar Solos Quotes

• I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

  Kirk Hammett

  Rocks, Guitar, Bored

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• In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

  Chris Daughtry

  Guitar, Solo

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• The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.

  David Lee Roth

  Song, Rocks, Guitar

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• Sometimes it's the mistakes that end up leading you into new territory .. like the guitar solo on 'Peelin' Taters' - I had some speaker problems, but the tone ended up sounding better than if I had new speakers .. it's a 60's Nashville, 'uptown' thing

  Junior Brown

  Music, Mistake, Guitar

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• Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

  J Mascis

  Song, Guitar, Together

  "J Mascis on the guitarists you really must hear" by Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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• My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.

  Jimmy Page

  Guitar, Years, My Favorite

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• From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

  Jason Hicks

  Music, Guitar, Morse Code

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• I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.

  Brian Setzer

  Guitar, Hook, Use

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• Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually performing, instead of learning the record and recreating it note for note. I can't play the show the same way every night .. I really need to be in a creative environment, every night or I'll go nuts ... my manager accuses me of singing just long enough to get me to my next guitar solo - which is true.

  Brad Paisley

  Music, Night, Guitar

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• I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.

  Gary Cherone

  Thinking, Player, Rocks

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• The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.

  Colin Meloy

  Song, Guitar, Stuff

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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• I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.

  Peter Capaldi

  Guitar, Live For Today, Alive

  "My week" by Peter Capaldi, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2006.

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• My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.

  Slash

  Dad, Rocks, Guitar

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. February 16, 201.

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• Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they are all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Guitar, Average, Play

  Guitar Player, Volume 7, 1973.

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• I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.

  Johnny Depp

  Beautiful, Thinking, Guitar

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2014.

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• Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Guitar, Solo, Repeats

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• A lot of people at my school could play the "Stairway to Heaven" guitar solo, but they couldn't play three chords of a Ramones song if their life depended on it because they didn't have the strength or ability to do it. But all I did was practice that, and the style that I eventually fell into is more focused than people would actually imagine.

  Kevin Shields

  Song, School, Practice

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.

  Dean Wareham

  Beautiful, Song, Sadness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

  Aphex Twin

  Clever, Emotional, Should Have

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

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• It grabs me, but not as much as it grabs some of the other people that rave about them. With the Black Keys, I'm missing crescendos with the sax, keyboard or guitar solo. It never comes to me. All my favorite music is rife with crescendo and I'm not hearing enough with them. If you can get the Black Keys to hear this, tell them I offer my crescendo guitar anytime they desire it.

  Ted Nugent

  Keys, Guitar, People

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• I do media every day I tour and the travel itself is a bit testing, so I don't get to do much gregarious activity when I'm on the road, but I do enough barbequing and enough hanging out and training with enough law enforcement and military to keep me bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and to make sure my guitar solos every night breath fire.

  Ted Nugent

  Military, Night, Fire

  Source: hardrockhaven.net

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• And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

  Dave Navarro

  Guitar, Important, Solo

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

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• I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

  Ace Frehley

  Guitar, Space, Get Up

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• Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

  Joshua Homme

  Fun, Guitar, Way

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• So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Music, Thinking, Guitar

  "Lee Ann Womack Hits Road With Toby Keith". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2005.

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