Guitar Quotes - Page 28

• Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.

  Carole King

  Dream, Eric, Guitarist

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• Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

  Matt Cameron

  Sound, Locks, Band

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• I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

  Gerard Butler

  Law, Training, President

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• I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.

  Marc Ribot

  Mean, Pieces, Way

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• In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

  David Amram

  Player, Thinking, Compliments You

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• I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

  Dave Edmunds

  Way, Compliment, Lowes

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• Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.

  Peter Tork

  Sunday, Band, Benefits

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• I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.

  Mark Knopfler

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• While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

  Mark Knopfler

  Song, Swings, Play

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• I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've started to try and write more traditionally, but for whatever reason, I tend toward trying to find something that sounds more like a pattern to me.

  Dave Matthews

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.

  Alan Licht

  Play, Wings, America

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• Looping isn't an effect: it's your playing, only more of it and, if you hang with it, it'll uncover previously hidden facets from the body of your music. Remember: the original source of any loop is whatever your sound is, at the moment of input.

  David Torn

  Sound, Body, Input

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• Never having thought of writing for the guitar, I asked Julian Bream for a chart which would explain what the guitar could do. I managed to write some rather pretty pieces for him, except that the first six notes of the first piece all need to be played on open strings. So when he begins to play the audience will probably think he's tuning the bloody thing up!

  William Walton

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

  William Shakespeare

  Degrees, Strings, Discord

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 109

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• Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

  Andres Segovia

  Singers, Violin, Matter

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• My guitar, I sing of thee 'Tis with thee that I decoy And ensnare enchantingly the ladies I enjoy.

  Pierre de Ronsard

  Thee, Enjoy

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• Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.

  Pete Townshend

  Play, Yesterday, Knees

  "Song: "Won't Get Fooled Again" ("Who’s Next")". 1971.

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• There's just no stopping those girls with guitars.

  Wynonna Judd

  Girl, Stopping

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• But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .

  Neil Diamond

  Humming

  Song: Cracklin' Rosie, Album: Tap Root Manuscript, 1970

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• He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

  Chuck Berry

  Play, Bells

  Song: Johnny B. Goode

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• My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Cadillacs, Hanging On, Hillbilly

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• I want a thousand guitars . . .

  Bruce Springsteen

  Want, Thousand

  Song: Radio Nowhere, Album: Magic, 2007

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• I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on

  Nathan East

  Music, Grateful, Wave Of Life

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• That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Woods, Faces

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• I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

  Brian May

  Music, Play, Brain

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