Guitar Quotes - Page 30

• I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It's where my heart's at.

  Billy Unger

  Heart, Gun, Rose

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

  Chris Cornell

  Letting Go, Rocks, Singing

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• When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar.

  Paul Weller

  Song, Writing, Littles

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• But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

  Krist Novoselic

  Song, Years, Skills

  Interview with Charles R. Cross, www.novoselic.com. November 2002.

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• But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

  Krist Novoselic

  Player, Dimes, Dozen

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• We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.

  Ian MacKaye

  Mean, Guitar Music, Play

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• I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

  Norah Jones

  Writing, Piano

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• There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.

  Mark Knopfler

  Country, Teacher, Kids

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• I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do.

  Steve Vai

  Kids, Years, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.

  Steve Vai

  Bars, Aliens, Relate

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Majesty guitar symbolizes the very reason why I am so proud to be a Music Man artist. I had the idea for this guitar a couple of years ago but it is because of their innovative spirit and dedication to the art of guitar building that it is now a reality. I am so grateful that I am able to collaborate with the best guitar company on the planet and so incredibly proud that together we have created what is to me, the perfect musical instrument for guitar players. I really hope you get a chance to play one and am confident that you will feel the same!

  John Petrucci

  Art, Couple, Grateful

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• I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

  Gary Burton

  Style, Fans, Four

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• For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.

  John Frusciante

  Color, Goes On, Tables

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• My brother plays guitar and base and writes. His name is Chase Ryan.

  Debby Ryan

  Brother, Writing, Play

  "Debby Ryan of The Suite Life on Deck Gives Her Vacay Tips!". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. August 7, 2009.

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• People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.

  Moby

  Rocks, People, Firsts

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• I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.

  Mac Miller

  Years

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• Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

  J Mascis

  Song, Together, Excuse

  "J Mascis on the guitarists you really must hear" by Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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• It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.

  J Mascis

  Play, Kind, Ability

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• EverTune is, without a doubt, the most important advance in guitar playing since the electric tuner. Using the EverTune, both onstage and in the studio, has completely changed the game. It's almost impossible to explain how amazing this innovation is. Pure magic!

  Ben Weinman

  Games, Innovation, Magic

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• After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Exercise, Years, Play

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• I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Song, Play, Tracy

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• I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar.

  Elena Tonra

  Bored, Bits

  "Daughter (No 1,116)" by Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2011.

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• One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on an acoustic guitar. You must develop it as a totally different thing.

  Rory Gallagher

  Hate, Play, People

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• When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.

  B. B. King

  Men, Thinking, Player

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• I fancy myself as being very good at Guitar Hero. I really don't play any other videogames. I kind of fell in love with Guitar Hero the first time I played it, and went out and bought a system for it.

  CM Punk

  Hero, Wwe, Play

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