Junior H (Antonio Herrera Perez) Quotes

“I taught myself how to play the guitar by watching videos on YouTube. Until this day, I don’t know the music notes but I do know all the chords.

Junior H

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• Chords

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• Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Guitar

• When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Wife
  • Same
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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
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• 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 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.
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Guitar

• I took piano lessons when I was really young, like five years old, and I didn't really enjoy that very much. It was kind of too strict. So when I was probably 11 or 12, I started playing guitar and just kind of taught myself.

  

  Washed Out
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • 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

• I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Find
  • Guitar
  • Numbers

• 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

• You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • People
  • Play
  • Guitar

• 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

• I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Played

• 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

• It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • School
  • High
  • Guitar

• 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

• The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Song
  • Cool
  • Guitar

• There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Up
  • You
  • Jump

• I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • American
  • Guitar
  • Gibson

• I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Think
  • Future
  • Years

• In the middle of the last century there was a reason to go to war. This time around the war was a really bad idea and I think the only people that benefited from it were Halliburton and people that made money from it, but that's not an excuse to have a war. Killing American kids so Halliburton can make money is not a righteous reason to go to war.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Money
  • War
  • Killing

• Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Mean
  • Couple
  • Bows

• A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

  

  Etta James
  • Singing
  • Blues
  • Depressing

• “I taught myself how to play the guitar by watching videos on YouTube. Until this day, I don’t know the music notes but I do know all the chords.

  

  Junior H
  • Guitar
  • Notes
  • Chords