Guitar Quotes
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When the Box Tops first started out, I couldn't play guitar much at all. Only after we had our first hit records did I start playing.
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[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals?
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I'm not a household name; I'm just a household name to guitar freaks.
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Chance in music doesn't have to involve the I Ching or rolling dice or throwing yarrow stalks. It can involve an out-of-tune guitar, or other impossible-to-replicate moments of awkwardness - even more so than an awkward, out-of-tune live performance, because there's something incredible about the way that an out-of-tune guitar becomes part of the song on a record. I won't be precious and say it's part of the composition - that's nonsensica l - but chance occurrences are so crucial to what's distinctive. It's the fingerprints all over so many of these recordings.
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We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.
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Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.
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A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'
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The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.
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I used a fifties Les Paul custom on most of the stuff. I also used a Strat, a newer Strat. I had a million guitars in there but I used the Strat & the Les Paul in just about everything. There were a lot of different amp choices, I was working with a pro tools plug-in which is like an amplifier stimulator. The possibilities with something like that are just endless.
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I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.
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Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
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That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.
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I just wanted to play my guitar.
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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.
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I like to make my guitar sound mean.
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I just go where the guitar takes me.
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It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
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Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.
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I'm still constantly learning and that's what keeps me excited about the guitar.
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When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.
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We'll see how the guitar players of the world take to it.
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All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.
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I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.
