Guitar Quotes - Page 14

• I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

  Andy Partridge

  Father, Play, Influential

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• The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

  Dick Dale

  Kings, Kids, Surfing

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• Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

  Billy Gibbons

  Music, Character, Player

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• The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

  George Benson

  Player, World, Today

  Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.

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• I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.

  Eric Clapton

  Grandmother, Noise, Able

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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, Creating

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• I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

  Brian Eno

  Years, Pounds, Use

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• Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

  Cat Stevens

  Inspiration, Play, Voice

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• I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

  Tina Weymouth

  Player, Bass, Want

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• I have no guitar technique.

  Warren Zevon

  Technique

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• I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the craft needs to do. It's basic practicing of the basic elements. I try to practice like a well rounded regiment of things where I can kind of do whatever I wanna do and I also have to practice the actual songs to keep that under my fingers as well.

  John Petrucci

  Song, Thinking, Player

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• Every July, August and part of September I escape of the guitar, I escape of Paco de Lucia and I go to Mexico to the Carrabian. I have a little house there where I spend two months listening to music, no playing because I don't bring the guitar with me, fishing and cooking my fish and charging the batteries for new concerts.

  Paco de Lucia

  Player, August, Fishing

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• I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.

  Slash

  Player, Half, Hours

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• Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll sit in for the whole show ! ... we've got a habit of doing that ... in Austin Redd Volkaert does the same thing ... it's fun ... I love to make it a guitar thing and the audience doesn't know any different - they think he's some new band member they don't know. They don't realize Albert's the reason we all play Teles!.

  Brad Paisley

  Music, Fun, Real

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• I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake at the top end of it whenever I hear it, I always think, Man I could've played it better ... but I like the way it sounds. I'd never heard a guitar sound like that before.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Music, Mistake, Men

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• That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

  Syd Barrett

  Kids, Play, People

  Rolling Stone, December 1971.

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• At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time

  Gregg Allman

  Song, Real, Water

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• I play the piano a lot at home, I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage... I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.

  Mick Taylor

  Song, Home, Writing

  "The Artist Shop IRC Chat with Mick Taylor". www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.

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• I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.

  Debra Wilson

  Piano

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• The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

  Gary Cherone

  Player, Voice, Trying

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• It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

  Andy Summers

  Competition, Keyboards, Serious

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• I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

  Mike Figgis

  Play, Piano, Trumpets

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• I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

  Steven Tyler

  New York, Fighting, Player

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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 prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

  Theodore Bikel

  Weapons, Causes, Common

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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