Guitar Quotes - Page 21

• I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Writing, Play

  FaceBook post by Noel Gallagher from Dec 23, 2016

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• I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.

  Noel Gallagher

  Play, People, Style

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• The disparity between being a 10-year-old boy playing air guitar, wishing I was a rock star, and the reality of the whole thing is insane.  A girl will throw her bra onstage, and I say to myself, if I was the guy that pumped your gas today, would you throw your bra at me?

  John Rzeznik

  Girl, Stars, Boys

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• I'm amazed that I can sit down, put a guitar in my hands and start playing kind of free style, and it will be four hours later and it will feel like it's been five minutes. I think that adds depth to your being, when something in your life can do that for you. Everybody should try to find something in their life that can do that for them. People find really elaborate self-destructive ways of killing time on this planet. That's why they take drugs or drink, trying to alter their state of being. If you can find something that doesn't destroy you, but deepens your character, you're really lucky.

  John Rzeznik

  Character, Thinking, Self

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• At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard.

  Morton Feldman

  Order, Play, Littles

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• When I sit down and play the guitar, Im 20 years old again.

  J.J. Cale

  Years, Play, Down And

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• Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

  J.J. Cale

  Player, Littles, Dinner

  "JJ Cale, songwriter behind Cocaine and After Midnight, dies aged 74" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.

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• I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart.

  Eddie Kirkland

  Heart, Long, Alive

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• About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

  Freddie Mercury

  Years, Three, Chords

  "Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl". Live album by Queen (Freddie Mercury's intro to the song "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"), October 25, 2004.

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• I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the '60s as a result of controlled substances being in widespread use. Back then, there were no restrictions, in terms of talent, on who could make an album, so we made one, and it sounds like a group of people who have been given powerful but unfamiliar instruments as a therapy for a degenerative nerve disease.

  Dave Barry

  Powerful, Names, Ducks

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• My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it

  Gavin DeGraw

  Dad, Play, Piano

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• You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.

  Don Felder

  Music, Memorable, Interesting

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• I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Beautiful, Song, Writing

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• It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.

  Marty Stuart

  Gun, Rocks, Littles

  Song: Hillbilly Rock, Album: Hillbilly Rock

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• Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then, you get a big ovation while the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around.

  Frank Zappa

  Light, Ovation, Looks

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• Yeah. I started using them [SDD-3000s] shortly after first working with Edge on The Unforgettable Fire. Basically, I stole his sound. It wasn't a complicated rig: just a guitar he liked through a Korg SDD-3000 digital delay into a Vox. Three components, mono - that's it. The great thing about the Korgs is its three-position level switch, which lets you hit the amp with about 10 extra dB. It's more overdriven than if you just plugged the guitar straight into the amp, even when it's on bypass. But a lot of the guitar sounds on Achtung Baby were recorded through a Korg A3 effects processor.

  Daniel Lanois

  Baby, Fire, Delay

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• I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar

  Stephen Stills

  Mean, Play, Feels

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• As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

  Boz Scaggs

  Player, Style, Easy

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• Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.

  Alex Chilton

  Lonely, Stars, Nice

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• There' something about universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.

  Jim Croce

  Simplicity, Age, Acoustics

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• I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like.

  Cat Stevens

  Thinking, Use, Folks

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• I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings

  Macklemore

  Writing, Play, Beats

  Song: The Town, Album: The Unplanned Mixtape, 2009

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• All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

  Guy Clark

  Nylon, Firsts, Kind

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• A man can’t have too many guitars or too many shotguns.

  Robert Earl Keen

  Men, Weapons, Shotguns

  "Guitar Whispering". Interview with John Seabrook, www.newyorker.com. November 16, 2009.

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• When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.

  Gabor Szabo

  Music, Play, Feelings

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