Guitar Quotes
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I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.
Adam Jones -
I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.
Ernie Isley The Isley Brothers
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My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.
Sam Palladio -
It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz -
I just wanted to play my guitar.
Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians -
Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.
Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age -
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 Queen -
When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.
Gabor Szabo
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People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.
Siouxsie Sioux Siouxsie and the Banshees -
Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was everything from then on.
John Prine -
That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
Ben Harper -
I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.
Dr. John -
It took me a while to get an electric guitar and a bass and amps and stuff. Playing the acoustic guitar was much easier and more affordable. But I was always listening to the radio and was interested in all the rock and pop music.
Timothy B. Schmit The Eagles -
At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.
Scott Ian Anthrax
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It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.
Ryan Adams -
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 -
Just give me a record. You give me a guitar, I'll probably hit a ball with it.
Ilie Nastase -
I often use dropped D or C - I even go all the way down to A. What can be really cool is drop a guitar down there and have the rest of the band continue in standard tuning. It gives it a lot of power and texture.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd -
When I was about 15, I picked up the guitar and learned how to play by going through Beatles chords books. I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog.
M. Ward -
Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can't imagine a life without a guitar.
Suzi Quatro
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Trey Spruance didn't want to tour for ages. And Dean Menta has always been our guitar-roadie during Angel Dust, and I remember him playing fantastically during soundchecks. During each gig, he was watching from the side of the stage, seeing Big Jim play stuff that he could play better.
Mike Patton Faith No More -
Everything that I do I hear and then I go with my hands, and since I use my hands for both piano and guitar that is kind of hands-on.
Kaci Brown -
If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.
Jimmie Davis -
As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it a style.
John Prine