Guitar Quotes - Page 20

• I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He sounded so good and it sounded so easy, so I bought me a guitar and an amplifier and said now I can't do nothing but play! Really, welding was my talent, I think, but I sort of swished it aside.

  Wes Montgomery

  Music, Christian, Thinking

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• Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared everybodys parents, which was part of the attraction then - as it still is now... it totally blindsided me and made me want to get a guitar and do that.

  Roger McGuinn

  Music, Rocks, Play

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• A lot of guitar players get stuck on a person ... before they find out who they really are ... every guitar player should remember be yourself - just let it rip.

  Henry Garza

  Music, Being Yourself, Rip

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• Just because a guitar is old doesn't make it good... I've seen guitars that were old but weren't as good as the reissue ... for me, it's not the age that makes it happen, it's the quality of the instrument.

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Music, Age, Quality

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• Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the music is so vast, and I think that's what knocks people out about him. But he's such a tasty player too. I think if Chopin had played guitar, he would have sounded like Lenny Breau.

  Chet Atkins

  Music, Player, Thinking

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• I was doing someones hair the day I first saw my guitar ... a guy was walking down the street with it, and knew that guitar was mine (a 1953 weathered Fender Telecaster) .. I said I'll get you the most beautiful guitar you've ever seen and I'll trade you straight across ... I found him a purple Telecaster and said here's your guitar ... that was it, it was like he knew that guitar belonged to me.

  Roy Buchanan

  Music, Beautiful, Hair

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• Approach your guitar intelligently, and if there are limits, don't deny them. Work within your restrictions. Somethings you can do better than others, some things you can't do as well. So accentuate the positive.

  Chet Atkins

  Funny, Music, Limits

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• It's interesting to see how acoustic guitars are emerging as a primary instrument once again ... reminds me very much of what Jim Messina and I were doing back then. You can't get too far away from an acoustic guitar

  Kenny Loggins

  Music, Interesting, Acoustics

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• ... I like the clubs because ... we have two or three acoustic guitars up there and we're not hard-core slamming or stomping through the music. We're singing it with intricate harmonies and really showing the craftsmanship.

  Toby Keith

  Music, Two, Singing

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• It's cool. One of the dudes who I made my album with who I'm a very good friend of for quite a while, I lived on his sofa for a while. And he's a professional guitar player, and he played for One Direction. And so I'd wake up on a sofa sometimes with Harry from One Direction on the other sofa, and I'd kind of be like 'you alright?'

  Ed Sheeran

  Good Friend, Player, One Direction

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• I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

  Frank Turner

  Believe, Needs, Desperate

  Song: I Still Believe, Album: England Keep My Bones, 2011

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• I've always been on a personal mission to save the guitar.

  Tom Morello

  Missions, Personal Mission

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• The guitar is an orchestra in itself.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Orchestra

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• In the physical universe, there are objects that include suns, planets, all life, and all matter in all dimensions. And then there is the space where all these things exist. That space is the vital element. For virtually every kid since 1968 who picked up a guitar to find his voice on the instrument, Jimmy Page has been the space that enables all our notes to be played.

  Steve Vai

  Kids, Voice, Space

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• It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness, emotional investment in the notes, etc. But If I had to pick one, it would be Tommy Emmanuel. Watching him perform can be a study in artistic and virtuosic human achievement.

  Steve Vai

  Player, Emotional, People

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• If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.

  Joe Satriani

  Fun, Book, Exercise

  Guitar Player, November 1989.

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• I can embarrass myself very easily on guitar. It's funny because people say to me I can play anything; I'm God on the guitar. But I could make a big list of everything I can't play... I'm grateful that people don't notice that.

  Joe Satriani

  Grateful, Play, People

  BAM Magazine, April 06, 1990.

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• Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't you want to play guitar?

  Joe Satriani

  Fun, Play, Sound

  Musician magazine, November 1996.

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• I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before. Instead of using the pick the chimp was banging the neck and tapping it with its fingers. I knew the chimp was on to something so I practiced this new technique in my room for hours until I'd perfected it.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Zoos, One Day, Technique

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• A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Should, Strings, Built

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• When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain. Put the time in. Hear your mistakes. Yeah, it sucks, it's humbling, it makes you want to throw the guitar out the window. But if you work on your mistakes, they'll eventually go away, and you'll become a strong player.

  John Petrucci

  Strong, Mistake, Player

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• Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Dog, Home, Thinking

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• A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable.

  William Christopher Handy

  Sadness, Knives, Shoes

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.

  Jimmie Davis

  Want, Bigs, Ifs

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• We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.

  Noel Gallagher

  Guitar Music, Gutters

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

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