Guitar Quotes - Page 26

• Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

  John Fogerty

  Music, Journey, Finished

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• Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

  David Lee Roth

  Rocks, Pants, Electric

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• When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

  Les Paul

  Too Much, Picks

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• There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.

  Keith Richards

  Attitude, Play, Style

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• I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience.

  John Fogerty

  Writing, Thinking, Rocks

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• Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

  James Hetfield

  Funny, Feelings, Standing

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• Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!'

  Trent Reznor

  Girlfriend, People, Should

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• Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why I like it . . . The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that’s my idea of a good time.

  Frank Zappa

  Ideas, Earth, Faces

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• I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

  Robin Trower

  Feels, Guitarist

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• I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.

  Kurt Cobain

  Years, Sound, Lasts

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• I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.

  Hugh Jackman

  Piano, Favour

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• I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.

  Joe Pass

  Player, Copying, Remember

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• All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

  Chuck Berry

  Rocks, Want, Rock N Roll

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• Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

  Waylon Jennings

  Country, Feelings, Banjos

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• I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also will use any gadget or device that I find that helps me achieve the sort of sound on the guitar that I want to get.

  David Gilmour

  Thinking, Play, Sound

  Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. February 21, 2006.

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• Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.

  Beck

  Song, Writing, Fire

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• I use to think that the friction was a bad thing. Everything is to ease pain in our society; pain is very much the enemy. And I don't think that's true. Tension is a good thing. To be pulled tight: that's the only way you can make a proper noise on the guitar or violin.

  Jon Foreman

  Pain, Thinking, Enemy

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• Every guitar has a personality.

  Jol Dantzig

  Personality

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• Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and wild mind that his performances are also deep conversations, soul to soul and heart to heart, about the quirks, surprises, and love that brings us most alive. His songs, ranging from the little plastic parts that hold the world together, to what enlightenment comes from Buddha and Betty Boop falling in love, are whimsically and wisely original and enduring.

  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

  Song, Falling In Love, Heart

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• I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.

  Marc Maron

  Couple, Distance, People

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• My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

  Josh Hartnett

  Dad, Vacation, Play

  "Josh Hartnett On “August”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. July 15.

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• What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

  Delta Goodrem

  Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Acoustics

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• I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.

  B. B. King

  Believe, Heart, Player

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• Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

  Billy Corgan

  Rocks, Play, Guy

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a range of emotions and images, taking the listener on a beautiful journey. The layers of basses, guitars and percussion ebb and flow, drawing on jazz, folk, blues and African music, blending all the elements into one lovely album. Recommended.

  Steve Lawson

  Beautiful, Journey, Ebb And Flow

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