Guitarist Quotes - Page 2

• All the great guitarists have a spirit-a way they play and don't play.

  Eddie Martinez

  Funny, Inspiring, Play

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• One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.

  Glenn Branca

  Want, Noise, Hundred

  Interview with Simon Dasher, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2006.

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• Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

  Nick Cave

  Sound, Ordinary, Doe

  "Nick Cave talks about the new Grinderman CD, Katy Perry's 'chubby' fingers, and why EW needs to stop wasting his time with all these stupid questions". Interview with Clark Collis, ew.com. September 14, 2010.

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• I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect.

  Howard Roberts

  Funny, Inspiring, Religious

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• All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

  Louis Armstrong

  Funny, Music, Song

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 7 July 1971

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• I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

  Phoebe Snow

  Female, Alive, Fantasy

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• Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.

  Joe Satriani

  Music, Player, Guitar

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• You have to listen to what someone is doing and help them get to where they want to go, musically speaking. I play a supporting role if someone else is soloing, and a guitarist will do the same for me while I am soloing.

  McCoy Tyner

  Play, Want, Roles

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• I decided I would rather have a day job and love music than to play music that made me hate it.

  David Torn

  Funny, Inspiring, Jobs

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• I dont like to waste notes, not even one. I like to put the right note in the right place, and my influences have always been those kinds of players. Keith Richards comes to mind, and I really like Nils Lofgrens soloing, because hes so melodic. I love John Lennons rhythm playing, and George Harrison was an incredible guitarist.

  Johnny Marr

  Player, Mind, Keith

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• If I had known I would influence so many guitarists, I would have practiced more.

  Ace Frehley

  Influence, Known, Ifs

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• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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• Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage its meaningless to copy something someone has done before.

  Miyavi

  Artist, Done, Singers

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• All the different styles I've played have really helped me as a guitarist and helped me develop my own way of playing.

  Tommy Bolin

  Style, Different, Way

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• Larry Carlton is an incredibly versatile guitarist who has been a major force for guitar for many years. He is easily recognizable - all you have to do is hear him once and from that point on you'll be a fan, just like me. It gives me great pleasure to extend congratulations to Larry on his 2011 George Benson Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations !

  George Benson

  Congratulations, Years, Awards

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• For an electric guitarist to solo effectively on an acoustic guitar you need to develop tricks to avoid the expectation of sustain that comes from playing electrics. Try cascades, for example. Drop arpeggios over open strings, and let the open strings sing as you pick with your fingers. It's kind of a country style of playing, but it works very well in-between heavily strummed parts and fingered lead lines.

  Pete Townshend

  Country, Guitar, Expectations

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• It's weird - I can listen to a guitar player or a rock record over and over again and really enjoy whatever the guitarist is doing. But when I do it, after 30 seconds or so I get really frustrated and can't understand why I, or anyone else, would want to write songs.

  Kevin Drumm

  Song, Writing, Player

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Style, Had Enough, Pursue

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• It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.

  James Young

  Crazy, Way, Worst

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• I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together.

  Eddie Vedder

  Dream, Song, Ukulele

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist.

  Alex Lifeson

  Rhythm

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

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• Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.

  Andres Segovia

  Color, Thorough Knowledge, Special

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• I'm more of a strumming guitarist, instead of a lead soloist guitarist.

  Stark Sands

  Strumming

  Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. April 14, 2010.

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