Guitar Quotes - Page 35

• The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.

  Frank Iero

  Philosophy, Mean, Hands

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• I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

  Janis Ian

  Playing Guitar

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• I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

  Janis Ian

  Mom, Band, Lessons

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• At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

  Janis Ian

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.

  Michael Imperioli

  Years, Three, Band

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• I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.

  Scott Ian

  Song, Home, Writing

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• To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.

  Scott Ian

  Player, Feel Good, Sound

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• To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.

  Scott Ian

  Fun, Play, Tools

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• I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Thinking, Range, Expressive

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• You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Thinking, Done, Karaoke

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• I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Moving, Feel Good, Musician

  "Hot Tracks: Gary Clark Jr". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. December 2012.

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• My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Mom, Should Have, Play

  "Hot Tracks: Gary Clark Jr". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. December 2012.

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• When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Hip Hop, Sublime, Radio

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• Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.

  Etta James

  Country, Teenager, Night

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• I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.

  Jam Master Jay

  Records, Remember, Stores

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• The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Paris, Snow

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• I'll never be the best guitar player.

  Chad Kroeger

  Player, Being The Best, Guitar Player

  "Nickelback's Chad Kroeger has high expectations". Associated Press Interview, chronicle.augusta.com. October 4, 2005.

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• All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

  John Mellencamp

  Stars, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

  George Harrison

  Stars, Rock And Roll, Play

  Song: Cockamamie Business

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• Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

  Rod Stewart

  Rock And Roll, Steel, Courses

  Song: Mandolin Wind, Album: Every Picture Tells a Story, 1971

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• Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.

  Tom Petty

  Wind, Rock And Roll, Silver

  Song: Dreamville, Album: The Last DJ

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• He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun.

  Elvis Presley

  Gun, Rock And Roll

  Song: King Creole

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• He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

  Chuck Berry

  Writing, Rock And Roll, Play

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• He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

  David Bowie

  Boys, Rock And Roll, Play

  Song: Ziggy Stardust, 1972

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• I bought me a guitar about a year ago, learned how to play in a day or so.

  Bobby Bare

  Years, Rock And Roll, Play

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