Guitar Quotes - Page 31

• It's a cocktail-party circuit in D.C., That guy who couldn't master the guitar and get in a band and get laid, he ends up there. Gary Condit make sense to me. He's away from his family, he's in D.C. - if he was a car dealer in the [San Fernando] Valley somewhere out there, he'd be the guy who was trying to get laid by offering you the free undercoating package.

  Dennis Miller

  Party, Offering, Car

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• I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can imagine from around the country - New Orleans Jazz to Indian flute players, R&B, you name it. I met and became good friends with (blues guitar player) Joe Louis Walker. He was on the show.

  Scotty Moore

  Country, Good Friend, Player

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• I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute.

  Kate Voegele

  Kids, Insane, Lasts

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• My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

  Lou Reed

  Rocks, Play, Important

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• I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

  Chris Isaak

  Song, Writing, Play

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• Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.

  Richard Hawley

  Player, Records, Solo

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• My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  New York, Dad, Mean

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• I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Horse, Crazy, Player

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• My guitar playing has not developed as much as I think it could because I never practice. I only play when I'm writing or recording or when I'm playing on tour. When I'm sitting around at home, I never play.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Home, Writing, Thinking

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• I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.

  Steve Kazee

  Years, Play, Piano

  "THE LEADING MEN: Steve Kazee, the Traveling Heart of Broadway's Once". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. March 17, 2012.

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• The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

  Steve Vai

  World, Instruments

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• When I have the opportunity, I want to perform the guitar live for my fans. Please expect that!

  Kim Tae-yeon

  Opportunity, Fans, Snsd

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• The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

  Annie Dillard

  Song, Art, Blue

  Annie Dillard (1983). “Living by Fiction”, New York : Harper & Row

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• The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Moore's guitar on 'Mystery Train.' You're not gonna get that in a computer. You're gonna want a live room, you're gonna wanna bounce the tape, you're gonna want real musicians, in a room, vibin' off of each other.

  Channing Tatum

  Real, Soul, Musician

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• I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

  Garth Brooks

  Use, Guts, Stills

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• My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

  Gordie Howe

  Mother, Dad, Fiddle

  Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.

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• Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

  John Denver

  Song, Writing, Play

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

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• And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Taken, Kids, Done

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• I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Break, Strings, Whole

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• If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Keys, Knowing, Quality

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• When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Home, Practice, Play

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• I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

  Minnie Driver

  Play, Taught, Enough

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• I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.

  Jeremy Irons

  School, Holiday, Sleep

  "Jeremy Irons on Integrity". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

  Graham Parker

  Song, Ideas, Littles

  "Graham Parker on reuniting with The Rumour, constructing the flow of an album, and more". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them.

  James Hetfield

  Hate, People, Ask Me

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