Guitar Quotes - Page 32

• I was in Jacques Brel Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with Jacques Brel doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.

  Amanda McBroom

  Song, Years, Singing

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Woman of Will's Amanda McBroom, Returning to Piazza and a Wicked Thought". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 19, 2005.

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• I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?

  Anne Hathaway

  Song, Hard Work, Artist

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• I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

  M. Ward

  Adventure, Singing, Singers

  "M. Ward's Metallica phase". Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. May 3, 2007.

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• I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

  Glen Hansard

  Creativity, Good Times, Miserable

  "Glen Hansard of The Swell Season". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 10, 2009.

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• I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

  Glen Hansard

  Play, Might, Satisfied

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• I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can.

  Alexa Chung

  Play, Trying, Violin

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• I'm a struggling guitar player.

  Megyn Kelly

  Struggle, Player, Guitar Player

  "10 Things About Me: Megyn Kelly" by Erin Clements, www.elle.com. March 27, 2009.

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• At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

  James Iha

  Song, Writing, Player

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• It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.

  James Iha

  Jobs, Player, People

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• My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

  Jack Antonoff

  Growing Up, Father, Thinking

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• Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.

  Andrew Bird

  Sexy, Vintage, Kind

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• I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Real, Hero, Party

  “Elizabeth Banks Is on Our Team” by David Walters, www.esquire.com. July 7, 2008.

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• I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.

  George Benson

  Player, Giving, Trying

  "George Benson Interview From The Noise11.com Archives". Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 23, 2016.

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• Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.

  George Benson

  Simple, Band, Gigs

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• I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.

  James Blunt

  Thinking, Way, Firsts

  "Sweet Baby James". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 27, 2006.

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• I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

  Jeff Buckley

  Guy, Want

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• I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

  Saffron Burrows

  Song, Years, Play

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• I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.

  Steve Burns

  Crazy, Home, Play

  "Ex-'Blue's Clues' host Steve Burns an indie rocker at heart" by Joe Dangelo, www.mtv.com. April 29, 2002.

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• When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.

  Steve Burns

  Brother, Play, Ideas

  "Ex-'Blue's Clues' host Steve Burns an indie rocker at heart" by Joe Dangelo, www.mtv.com. April 29, 2002.

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• It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.

  Wes Borland

  Strong, Pleasure, Melody

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• I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.

  Wes Borland

  Lying, Player, Bored

  "Wes Borland: Why he left Limp Bizkit" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. January 24, 2002.

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• I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

  Wes Borland

  Unique, Player, People

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• I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

  Darren Criss

  Brother, Growing Up, Play

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• When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.

  Katie Cassidy

  Kids, Piano, Periods

  "Katie Cassidy Interview - HARPER'S ISLAND". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. April 11, 2009.

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• My brother was very important to me. And he played guitar. So that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a guitar player. So he was the first one to inspire me to do something with my life. And I was so glad that he was there.

  Bootsy Collins

  Brother, Player, Inspire

  "Bootsy Collins Brings Back The Funk". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 19, 2011.

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