Guitar Quotes
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I just go where the guitar takes me.
Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
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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
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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.
Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
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But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .
Neil Diamond
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I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.
Joe Perry Aerosmith
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There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song.
Merle Haggard
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You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock and roll you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues.
Jack White The White Stripes
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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
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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
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I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.
Eddie Murphy
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Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
Roger McGuinn The Byrds
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I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.
Adam Jones
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I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.
Cory Arcangel
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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
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We'll see how the guitar players of the world take to it.
Dave Mason
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When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.
Daniel Quine Auerbach The Arcs
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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
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Even before I wrote any songs, I had this idea of a triangle where the voice was at the top, some sort of guitar element on one side, and then some sort of really basic rhythm on the other side. That's where I started from in the recording process.
Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
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Jimi Hendrix came on TV on this documentary and it was this African-American soulful black guy, playing an electric guitar, which I'd just started. And it just blew my head off. I had like an afro at the time, too. It was a bit all over the place. And it wasn't a thing to have an afro. No, that's kind of quite old school. You're supposed to have like a neatly cut shaped up haircut.
Michael Kiwanuka
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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.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd
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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
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If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.
Jimmie Davis