Walter Trout Quotes

The Hamsters really kick ass - Slim is one of your greatest guitar players

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• I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Guitar
  • Now
  • Beatles

• You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

  

  B. B. King
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Alone
  • Play
  • Player

• Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Good
  • Song
  • Guitar

• I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Family
  • Dog
  • Guitar

• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Way
  • Player
  • Guitar

• When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Time
  • Country
  • Want

• A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Time
  • You
  • Guitar

• I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

  

  B. B. King
  • Guitar
  • Emotions
  • Connect

• And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Kid

• It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.

  

  J Mascis
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Edge

• I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Love
  • House

• I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Focus
  • Try
  • Guitar

• I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril Lavigne! But I got annoyed with having to plug it in and play with amps and pedals and stuff. Then I got given a cheap acoustic, a Tanglewood, and I thought it was awesome because I could play it anywhere!

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Remember
  • Thought
  • Guitar

• I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.

  

  B. B. King
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Guitar

• He's been seasoned, ... Hopefully we've got a young guy who's on the come.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Help
  • Guy
  • Players

• You’re not going to suck.’’ ‘‘Not at the guitar, anyway,’’ Shane said, deadpan. Claire punched him in the arm. ‘‘Ow.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Guitar
  • Arm
  • Deadpan

• I have no fear of death, so I don't think about it. I love the adrenalin kick that danger brings. Others get their kicks bungee jumping from tall buildings. I'm very, very competitive. I want to be the best at everything I do. It's not driving - it's everything - it might be playing my guitar, I try to be the best at it as I possibly can.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Driving

• Saracens have got some very good players. They have had a difficult season but there is now a real togetherness in the squad.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Good
  • Real
  • Players

• I've always been into guitars. We want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Cool
  • Player
  • Players

• I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Writing
  • Guitar
  • Crap

• The Hamsters really kick ass - Slim is one of your greatest guitar players

  

  Walter Trout
  • Guitar
  • Players