Guitar Quotes - Page 39

• I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.

  Martha Wainwright

  Children, Dad, Night

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• Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Song, Inspiration, Hard Work

  "Bjorn Ulvaeus: ABBA star behind Mamma Mia". Interview with Gisella Deputato, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2009.

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• My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

  Iris DeMent

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Giving

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• I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

  Lukas Haas

  Piano, Long, Bass

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

  Page McConnell

  Mom, Dad, Play

  "Nightline Playlist: Page McConnell" by Howard L. Rosenberg, abcnews.go.com. January 5, 2008.

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• I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

  Page McConnell

  Song, Growing Up, Play

  ""Nightline Playlist: Page McConnell" by Howard L. Rosenberg". abcnews.go.com. January 5, 2008.

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• People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

  Joey Santiago

  People, Stuff, Asks

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• I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!

  Aaron Yoo

  Hero, Guitar Hero

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• Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.

  Bert Jansch

  Sticks, Guitar Playing, Showing Off

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• Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of Christ.

  Matt Papa

  Eye, Guy, Worship

  Twitter post from May 08, 2012

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• I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

  Rick Nielsen

  Player, Thinking, Rhythm

  "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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• I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.

  Rick Nielsen

  Opportunity, Equal, Offenders

  "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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• Stage presence is not something I spend a whole lot of time thinking about. On the one hand, I do, because I have, like, favorite front-people and I know what's excited me to see in a band. But I can't be David Yow [Jesus Lizard frontman] and still play guitar.

  J. Robbins

  Jesus, Thinking, Play

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• I always feel like the less I think of stage presence, the better, because then I have to face the fact that I have really complicated guitar parts, I'm singing almost all the time, and I have like six pedals I've got to keep on top of

  J. Robbins

  Thinking, Singing, Facts

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar.

  Ester Dean

  Play, Break, Fingers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My sister played the piano. She’s two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.

  Willie Nelson

  Couple, Book, Grandmother

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

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• My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band had another blacksmith shop in Abbott, but he liked me. All he had was horns and drums, and I was set up over there with my little guitar with no amps or nothing. I would play as loud as I wanted to, and nobody could hear me.

  Willie Nelson

  Jobs, Men, Play

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

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• It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

  Ryan Adams

  Player, Choices, Singers

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 23, 2007.

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• That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.

  Ryan Adams

  Thinking, Skills, People

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 23, 2007.

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• I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I was a recording artist for a couple days.

  Kristen Wiig

  Dream, Song, New York

  "Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig Talk THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY, Filming in Iceland, Balancing Fantasy and Reality, Comparisons to the Original, and More". Press conference, collider.com. April 21, 2013.

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• I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar.

  Jemaine Clement

  Going Out, Porch

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. October 30, 2009.

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• It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Play, Voice

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out.

  Ryan Adams

  Crazy, Thinking, Piano

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".

  John Denver

  Dad, College, Play

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• Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

  Daniel Smith

  Song, Together, Acoustics

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