Guitar Quotes - Page 23

• In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

  Colin Greenwood

  Kids, Texture, Difficult

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.

  Scott Ian

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

  Tina Weymouth

  Kids, Mentor, Television

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• Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Guitar Playing, Bounds

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• The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin.

  Steve Goodman

  Play, Four, Problem

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• I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.

  Jonny Lang

  Years, Two, Months

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• My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

  Jonny Lang

  Dad, Good Friend, Player

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• A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.

  Willie Dixon

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• I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

  Bill Frisell

  Player, Important, Copying

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• I’ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of them come close to having Ed’s [Eddie Van Halen's] fantastic combination of chops and musicianship. I rank him along with Charlie Parker and Art Tatum as one of the three greatest musicians of my lifetime. Unfortunately, I don’t think Ed puts himself in that class.

  Ted Templeman

  Art, Player, Thinking

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• I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Play, Band, Want

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

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• I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’

  Dhani Harrison

  Sleep, Firsts, Solo

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• I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.

  Teena Marie

  Kids, Play, Matter

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• I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

  Brian May

  Achievement, Three, Records

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• No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God and the word of God. And strangely, that's enough. God's Word is enough for millions of believers who gather in house churches... Jungles... Rainforests, and middle-eastern cities. But is his Word enough for us?

  David Platt

  Air, Cities, People

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• Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split them up into different groups. And then, when we went out on tour and they [the record companies] would see us all up there together - we had five, six guitars playing at one time, not including the bass! -, they said: "Wait a minute, that's just one whole group, selling different names!" But it wasn't - we had enough people in the group that each member would have a section to be another group. So now we're finally starting to get them to understand that.

  Gary Snyder

  Names, People, Waiting

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• It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well.  And by that time I was too rich to care.

  Chet Atkins

  Years, Tunes, Care

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• Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow your guitar and ring the horn. Hate mathematics, and love eddies. Creation is a bird without a flight plan, that will never fly in a straight line.

  Violeta Parra

  Hate, Writing, Blow

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• Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.

  Lee Smolin

  Words Of Wisdom, Ordinary, Different

  Lee Smolin (1999). “The Life of the Cosmos”, p.65, Oxford University Press, USA

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• And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.

  Pat Metheny

  Mind, Pieces, Jazz

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• A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.

  Wes Montgomery

  Cutting, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• I smash guitars because I like them.

  Pete Townshend

  Funny, Music, Funny Music

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• I don't need to speak...I play the guitar!

  Joe Perry

  Play, Needs, Speak

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• I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.

  Zacky Vengeance

  Wiggling, Strings, Fingers

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• My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.

  Chris Isaak

  Records, Strings, Expenses

  "Q&A WITH CHRIS ISAAK : So '60s Square, So '90s Cool". Interview with Jean Rosenbluth, articles.latimes.com. April 21, 1993.

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