Guitar Quotes - Page 34

• If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

  Kina Grannis

  Song, Writing, Trying

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• My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

  Andrew Garfield

  Depressing, Years, Two

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• I just rediscovered my guitar.

  Ben Gibbard

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• I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

  David Gilmour

  Records, Helping

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• Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.

  David Gilmour

  Voice, Wells, Has Beens

  "Q&A: David Gilmour". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. February 21, 2006.

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• I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

  David Gilmour

  Approach

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• Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

  Ryan Adams

  Beautiful, Song, Moving

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

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• In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Japan, People, Way

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• I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

  Zac Efron

  Song, Writing, Long

  "All New Q&A with Zac Efron". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 2, 2006.

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• I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

  Ace Frehley

  Wanted

  Ace Frehley (2011). “No Regrets”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• She was just another notch on my guitar.

  Robert Cray

  Notches

  Song: Right Next Door, Album: Strong Persuader

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• She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat.

  Bob Dylan

  Play, Quality, Likes

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• Take this rifle, kid. Gimme that guitar.

  Bobby Bare

  Kids, Rifles

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• Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly.

  David Bowie

  Song: Ziggy Stardust

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• My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

  Johnny Cash

  Family, Home, Daddy

  Song: A Boy Named Sue, Album: At San Quentin, 1969

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• I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably do 30 or 40 dates a year and I get to relive how I felt at 19 when I played in some really bad bands.

  David Cassidy

  Stars, Years, Rocks

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• I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

  Jerry Cantrell

  Thoughtful, Play, Effort

  "1996 Guitar World Interview: Jerry Cantrell of Alice In Chains Discusses Songwriting and Band's New Self-Titled Album". Interview with Jeff Gilbert and Andy Aledort, www.guitarworld.com. Nobember 15, 2011.

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• I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

  Richard Fleeshman

  Writing, Artist, Play

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• I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or something. It's fine if you have an interest. By talking with me, though, you could be interviewing a novelist about guitars. It's the same thing, except I don't write that well either.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Writing, Talking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Kids, Play, Grandparent

  "Radiohead's Guitarist Adapts To Life In Widescreen". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 15, 2012.

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• I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.

  Dhani Harrison

  Wise, Thinking, Serious

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

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• The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.

  Dhani Harrison

  Dad, Sound, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

  Joshua Homme

  Fun, Way, Should

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• I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.

  Mike Huckabee

  Strong, Thinking, Wonderful

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• The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.

  Taylor Hanson

  Fun, Keys, Missing

  "Taylor Hanson Isn’t Burning Down Any Hotel Rooms". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2009.

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