Guitar Quotes - Page 27

• Some are skeptical. My mom thought the guitar was going to fizzle out in two weeks, that it was just a fad-and that was in 1958.

  Jeff Beck

  Mom, Two, Fads

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• With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.

  Leo Kottke

  Teacher, Attitude, Cop

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• I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guy, Endorsements, Dork

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• Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.

  Neil Young

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• Bad music can make you weak.

  Ry Cooder

  Weak, Bad Music

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• Life is too short to play bad music

  Bob Brozman

  Life Is Too Short, Play, Bad Music

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• We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

  John Scofield

  Messing Up, Want, Vocalist

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• We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast

  Louis Armstrong

  Play, Half

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• Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it.

  Frank Zappa

  Feelings

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• When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Band

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• Practice like the Devil.

  Doc Watson

  Practice, Devil

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• I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

  Steve Earle

  Song, Writing, House

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• You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the drums... You only notice the guitar when it's not there.

  Freddie Green

  Should, Whole

  "The Guitar Handbook: A Unique Source Book for the Guitar Player - Amateur or Professional, Acoustic or Electrice, Rock, Blues, Jazz, or Folk". Book by Ralph Denyer, 1982.

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• First guitars tend to be like first loves: ill-chosen, unsuitable, short-lived and unforgettable.

  Tim Brookes

  First Love, Firsts, Unforgettable

  Tim Brookes (2007). “Guitar: An American Life”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how to play it, so I was a shitty teacher. I would never have went to me.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Teacher, Play, Decision

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• If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.

  Neil Young

  Would Be, Band, Links

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• Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.

  Neil Young

  Links, Way, Grunge

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• Rumble is the best instrumental ever.

  Bob Dylan

  Rumble

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• Link Wray is the all-time legend.

  Conan O'Brien

  Links, Legends, All Time

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• Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean very often. I remember being made very uneasy the first time I heard Rumble , and yet very excited by the guitar sound. And his voice! He sounds like a cross between Jagger and Van Morrison, even sometimes like Robbie Robertson. We met him in New York in 1970 while recording Who's Next.... this later inspired the b-side Wasp Man, a tune we dedicated to Link Wray.

  Pete Townshend

  New York, Mean, Men

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• That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

  Victoria Jackson

  Perfect, Fantasy, Shows

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• There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.

  Scott Stapp

  Moving, Player, One Direction

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• My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

  George Benson

  Player, Careers, Mind Blowing

  Interview with Edina Patsy, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.

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• I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!

  Tom Verlaine

  Player, Sound, Records

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• As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Country, Home, Kids

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