Guitar Quotes

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

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Player, Jazz

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• I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

  Joan Jett

  Hands, Play, Rooms

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• I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

  Alvin Lee

  School, Practice, Shapes

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• I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.

  Alex Lifeson

  Play, Tunes, Want

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

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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

  Doe, Working It, Electric

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• My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.

  Bruno Mars

  Mother, Uncles, Player

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• I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

  John Mayer

  Player, Singers, Jocks

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• I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

  Ian Mcewan

  Successful, Play, Rocks

  "Ian McEwan", www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.

  Moby

  Rocks, Years, Play

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• I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

  George Harrison

  Music, Hands

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• A guitar is more than just a sound box... it is part of your soul.

  Manuel Velazquez

  Music, Soul, Sound

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• If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert

  Thomas Ian Nicholas

  Gun, Would Be, World

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• Where words fail, music speaks.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

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• If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.

  Eric Clapton

  Hands, Play, Ifs

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• In a way, watching an attractive, potentially dangerous guy play guitar is a little like watching a tiger agree to do tricks for his trainer. You know that they could just turn and kill you. But you're so flattered and pleased that instead they agreed to stand on a decorative box and wave and count for the crowd that for a while you forget how big the scary part of them really is.

  Merrill Markoe

  Play, Guy, Scary

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

  Joan Jett

  Who I Am, Persona, Rockers

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

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• When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Drunk, Singers

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• What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Voice, People, Ears

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

  Michael Bamberger

  Golf, Tennis, Balls

  Michael Bamberger (2007). “This Golfing Life”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I said this to my daughter, if you don't practice the guitar, when you get older you wouldn't be able to play it. It's that simple. If you want to play the guitar, you put a half hour in everyday, but you have to do it.

  Woody Allen

  Daughter, Fun, Simple

  "Woody Allen Interview – Vicky Cristina Barcelona". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 15, 2008.

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

  Jason Hicks

  Music, Morse Code, Solo

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• I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.

  Charlie Daniels

  Music, Writing, Ideas

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• All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.

  Townes Van Zandt

  Song, Writing, Years

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• What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.

  Faye Kellerman

  Differences, Four, Pizza

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• Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.

  Lou Reed

  Bass, Beats, Drum And Bass

  Liner notes of "New York", studio album by Lou Reed, January 10, 1989.

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