Guitar Quotes - Page 25

• Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.

  Leo Kottke

  Mean, Sound, Stills

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• No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.

  Tom Petty

  Inspirational, Play, Long

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• It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style.

  Kenny Loggins

  Country, Style, Language

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• God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Way, Strings

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• Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.

  B. B. King

  Lying, Thinking, Worry

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• One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.

  Rory Gallagher

  Player, Ideas, Gallagher

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• It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana!

  Miyavi

  Samurai, Feels, Knows

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• The expertise displayed by each musician is jaw-dropping and it's matched by their sensitivity and taste... Lizzy Hoyt displays equal mastery of the fiddle, harp and guitar, complemented by an otherworldly voice. To top it off, she comes across as a truly natural and relaxed, people loving performer.

  Jim Sinclair

  Voice, People, Jaw Dropping

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• I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased life.... They are the artists of being alive.

  Frederick Franck

  Artist, Hands, Alive

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• I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!

  B. B. King

  Kings, Cutting, Whiskey

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• We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.

  Kurt Cobain

  Play, People, Tunes

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• I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.

  Brian Molko

  Girl, New York, Tired

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• I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear.

  St. Vincent

  Girl, Dirty, Mean

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• A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

  Edie Brickell

  Beautiful, Song, Dirty

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• Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Son, Cds, Two

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

  Cliff Richard

  Regret, Play, May

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• I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Play, Challenges

  "The Guitar Handbook". Book by Ralph Denyer, p. 102, 2002.

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• At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

  Muddy Waters

  Country, Night, House

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• My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.

  Carl Perkins

  Dad, Firsts, Chickens

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• Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.

  John Lennon

  Rocks, Two, Links

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• Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

  Link Wray

  Money, Records, Company

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• Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

  Dan Auerbach

  Play, Hell, Solo

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• If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes ‘your arrangement’

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Mistake, Arrangements, Ifs

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• Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.

  Gary Lucas

  Moving, Emotional, Hands

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• A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

  B. B. King

  Music, Old Friends

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