Guitar Quotes - Page 33

• Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

  Colbie Caillat

  Song, Writing, Play

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• Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.

  Colbie Caillat

  Writing, Records, Rooms

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• I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

  Dan Auerbach

  Song, Player, Singers

  "'We've put in more hours than anyone': The Black Keys interviewed". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

  Dan Auerbach

  Song, Play, Together

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• Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

  Dan Auerbach

  Kids, Years, Band

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• I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

  Dan Auerbach

  Dog, Brother, Acoustics

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• I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.

  Dan Auerbach

  Song, Character, Play

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• If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

  Patrick Carney

  Construction Workers, Nashville, Play

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• I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Country, Play, Style

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• I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

  Julian Cope

  Piano, Choices, Now And Then

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• I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.

  Vivian Campbell

  Worn

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• My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

  Arthur Darvill

  Dad, Young, My Dad

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

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• I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.

  Arthur Darvill

  Piano, Feelings, Bangs

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

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• We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar guy, the tour manager and a writer. We laugh ourselves silly. Apparently we're going to have a road dog, a miniature pincher. It's the smallest they've ever seen. How masculine am I going to look, working with dolls and a miniature dog?

  Jeff Dunham

  Dog, Nice, Silly

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

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• I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.

  Lee DeWyze

  Player, Unorthodox, Firsts

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• A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.

  Charlie Daniels

  Crazy, Two, Long

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• In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

  Chris Daughtry

  Solo, Guitar Solos

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• When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

  Chris Daughtry

  Song, Writing, Able

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• To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Track, Sound, Conscious

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• As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.

  Jonathan Demme

  Choices, Passionate, May

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2010.

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• When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

  Kim Deal

  Hate, Rocks, Names

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• I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

  Micky Dolenz

  Piano, Parent, Acting

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• During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.

  Ronnie Dunn

  College, Bass, Fit

  "Ronnie Dunn: Celebrity Art Collector". Interview with Reyne Haines, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2012.

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• So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

  Thomas Dolby

  Song, Records, Lines

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• I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

  Kina Grannis

  Song, Teaching, Writing

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