Guitar Quotes - Page 24

• I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn Türoque, the world's perennial second-place air guitar champion. Whoever this Dan Crane might be, he's captured the mad, seductive spirit of the arbitrary skill contest perfectly, and rocks it hard into the hot Finnish night. There is no number of umlauts that do this Jekyll and Hyde of air-rocking justice.

  John Hodgman

  Perseverance, Player, Night

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• I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

  Jerry Reed

  Years, Thankfulness, Proud

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• Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

  Hesiod

  Barns, Literature, Curvy Women

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• To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.

  Jessica Hische

  Creativity, Artist, Player

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• I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.

  Shawn Colvin

  Two, Singing, Singers

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• But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.

  Terry Kath

  Believe, Cat, Men

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• I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

  Dave Mustaine

  Growing Up, Pain, Anger

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• A man can never have too many pairs of sunglasses or too many guitars.

  Richie Sambora

  Men, Sunglasses, Pairs

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• I didn't marry a Beatle, I married a broke student who played the guitar and ponced all my grant money off me for fags.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Students, Married, Broke

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• I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Acoustics, Range, Subtlety

  Interview With James Jensen, everon.50megs.com.

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• My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

  Dan Fogelberg

  Girl, Dancing, Tree

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• The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.

  Manuel de Falla

  Art, Effort, Natural

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• You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person - writing a song that moves people is worth more than all the other nonsense. (Just look at Bob Dylan - he's got almost no vocal range at all, but his songs are deeply moving and iconic.) If I had to offer one piece of advice: Write a song that moves people, and write it from within yourself. Your personal narrative is more engaging and moving than anything else you can imagine in your mind.

  Ryan Ross

  Song, Moving, Writing

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• I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests.

  Noah Cicero

  Feet, Bird, Tree

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• If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.

  Robin Trower

  If I Could, Ifs, Guitarist

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• Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

  Niall Horan

  Play, Faces, Bigger

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• I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.

  Kim Thayil

  Play, Noise, Way

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• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  Barry Mann

  Piano, Being Played, Purity

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.

  David Bromberg

  Impossible, Wanted, Persons

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• I won't be able to live without my guitar, my phone or my boots on tour.

  Skylar Laine

  Phones, Boots, Able

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• And a lot of the technique and the little T-Bone phrases that define his style, Chuck Berry, when he rearranged the beat, they became rock 'n roll guitar licks. So in essence, T-Bone was not only the first electric blues guitar player, but he was the first electric rock 'n roll guitar player, really.

  Duke Robillard

  Player, Rocks, Essence

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• Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Hole”…Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as if he knows the lyrics but would never tell. Where the M.G.’s suavely underplayed their aggression, the rockers’ multiple-guitar attack, with distortion and feedback, gives the music teeth.

  Jon Pareles

  Giving, Sound, Teeth

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• I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

  Jimmy Page

  School, Good Things, Teach

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• This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model.

  Jeff Ament

  Years, Design, Gone

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• People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.

  Siouxsie Sioux

  People, Forget, Punk

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