Guitar Quotes - Page 11

• I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

  Alexis Korner

  Hurt, Play, Able

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• It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

  Barry McGuire

  Song, Fun, Play

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• I don't recall getting a first guitar.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Firsts, Recalls

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• At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

  Scott Ian

  Brother, Thinking, Issues

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• Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

  Scott Putesky

  Play, Yamaha, Seems

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• Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.

  Bobby Womack

  Love, Guy, Trying

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• Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

  Michael Stipe

  Stars, Sick, Peter

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• Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.

  George Thorogood

  Girl, Song, Average

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• There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

  Andy Summers

  College, Periods, Wanted

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• So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

  Catie Curtis

  Writing, Eight, Interesting

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• I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied.

  Julian Bream

  Player, Practice, Two

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• I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

  Gary Oldman

  Would Be, Fetch, Faces

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• I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

  Kip Winger

  Fun, Hands, Black

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• I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

  Bill Mumy

  Finding The One, House, Steps

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• We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.

  Gary Allan

  Whiskey, Feds, Barbecue

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• I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Acoustics, Finesse, Instruments

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• But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Giving, Volume, Whole Life

  "Ritchie Blackmore Talks Yngwie Malmsteen, Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple in 1991 Interview". Interview, www.guitarworld.com. February, 1991.

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• I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff

  Jason Schwartzman

  Mean, Shopping, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

  Jeremy London

  Brother, Play, Excellent

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• I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time

  Lita Ford

  Thinking, Singers, Hanging On

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• Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

  Rick Springfield

  School, Use, Puberty

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• My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way

  Dan Fogelberg

  Dad, Looks, Way

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• A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

  Robin Trower

  Important, Scream, Wells

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• My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Firsts

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• The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

  Richard Fleeshman

  Character, Men, Piano

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