Playing Guitar Quotes

• I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

  Jimmy Page

  Believe, Unique, Player

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• I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

  Joe Satriani

  Hero, Player, Guitar

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• I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

  Chris Cornell

  Letting Go, Rocks, Guitar

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• So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Brother, Guitar, Trying

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• Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

  John Fogerty

  Music, Journey, Guitar

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• Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

  Eddie Van Halen

  Music, Rocks, Guitar

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• When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression.

  Robby Krieger

  Kings, Guitar, Expression

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• I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at.

  Johnny Winter

  Guitar

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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

  Guitar

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• People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.

  Moby

  Rocks, Guitar, People

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• I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.

  Steve Kazee

  Guitar, Years, Play

  "THE LEADING MEN: Steve Kazee, the Traveling Heart of Broadway's Once". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. March 17, 2012.

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• I felt I had nothing more to say. Everything would have had to be a replay of the previous two or three albums, and that decided me to stop. What bothered me most was not playing guitar at all anymore. I felt I had no more contact with the instrument. It was just a piece of wood to me. I even thought music had definitely left me. After fourteen albums, there may be an overload phase, a sort of lassitude.

  Richard Pinhas

  Guitar, Two, Albums

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• I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.

  Vivian Campbell

  Jobs, Real, School

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• Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Time, Couple, Dad

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• As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.

  Richie Sambora

  Song, Player, Guitar

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• Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.

  Bootsy Collins

  Home, Guitar, Years

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• My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

  Josh Hartnett

  Dad, Vacation, Guitar

  "Josh Hartnett On “August”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. July 15.

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• Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

  Kris Allen

  Writing, Guitar, Forever

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.

  Kevin McKidd

  Son, Guitar, Play

  "Kevin McKidd: 'For my role in Rome I had to wear a little skirt - my wife liked that...'". www.mirror.co.uk. February 7, 2010.

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• I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.

  Brian May

  Thinking, Guitar, Hendrix

  "Their Britannic Majesties Request". Mojo Magazine Interview, www.brianmay.com. August 1999.

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• For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release - not to be stuck in one spot the whole night. It's really enjoyable having the freedom to move around. You just have to remember to end up somewhere near a microphone.

  Martin Gore

  Moving, Night, Guitar

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• Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  Interview with Dermot Stokes, Hot Press, March 1978.

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• If I see a chick playing guitar, I'm drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it's completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you're male. I can't help it. It's part of my nature.

  Courtney Love

  Guitar, Males, Attention

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

  Dave Grohl

  Guitar, Long, Firsts

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

  Ernie Isley

  Guitar, Contests, Beauty Contest

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