Guitar Quotes
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Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.
Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age -
I like to make my guitar sound mean.
Mark Thomas Tremonti Alter Bridge
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Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
Little Richard -
I came to work one day, and Ricky was playing music on his guitar, just snickering. He played me the riff that turned out to be 'Rock Lobster,' and it was hilarious. He was just trying to be funny. His guitar style made it moodier, and it really is a driving song, but it does have that funny humor to it.
Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s -
All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
Chuck Berry -
I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.
Robin Trower Procol Harum -
I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
I remember first seeing Barney Kessel, in the 1940s, standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, in his cowboy boots, sun glasses and hipster threads, holding his guitar case man, you just knew that cat could wail!'
Anita O'Day
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I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.
Scott Ian Anthrax -
That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.
Tom Araya Slayer -
To tell you the truth, I've never been really good at learning other people's stuff. I've been playing since I was 11, and I never took lessons. I kind of learned through hit and miss. I had the patience just because I loved guitar so much.
Mark Thomas Tremonti Alter Bridge -
Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.
Meredith Brooks -
A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.
David Howell Evans U2 -
With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.
Paco de Lucía
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Part of me likes a more ragged, jagged guitar sound or performance, but our work might not have been as innovative had we followed in the footsteps of what came before. We were very proud of what we had hit on.
Brian Eno Roxy Music -
I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.
Richie Sambora Bon Jovi -
A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.
Scott Ian Anthrax -
I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to be wasted to get up there and sing.
Gabriel Iglesias -
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones -
I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it.
Robin Zander Cheap Trick
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When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe dances around.
Joe Perry Aerosmith -
I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.
Stone Gossard Pearl Jam -
I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia -
We'll see how the guitar players of the world take to it.
Dave Mason