Guitar Quotes
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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 -
Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.
Niall Horan One Direction
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I'm like a lot of people in my generation. Eventually I went to get an electric guitar.
John Verity Argent -
I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.
Fred Frith Aksak Maboul -
On ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ we’d had one of our first arguments about the level of the bass guitar. Our engineer Mike Johnson had insisted to the others they were wrong to suggest turning it down. ‘It’s a great counterpoint,’ he’d said. ‘That’s what New Order is all about.
Peter Hook New Order -
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 -
In the physical universe, there are objects that include suns, planets, all life, and all matter in all dimensions. And then there is the space where all these things exist. That space is the vital element. For virtually every kid since 1968 who picked up a guitar to find his voice on the instrument, Jimmy Page has been the space that enables all our notes to be played.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz -
I've played hundreds of protests. I've marched on dozens of picket lines. I've strummed my guitar at innumerable demonstrations.
Tom Morello Rage Against the Machine
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I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.
Gary Moore -
When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression.
Robby Krieger The Doors -
You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock band. So I, in a very naive and teenage way, said, "That's it. I'm going to be in a band."
Michael Stipe R.E.M. -
Just give me a record. You give me a guitar, I'll probably hit a ball with it.
Ilie Nastase -
There are many pop stars who are great performers - but there is no chart-topping pop star in history who could play guitar like Prince.
Tom Morello Rage Against the Machine
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In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.
Dickey Betts -
When I played out it was just me and the guitar but now it’s just messing with the full band for the longest time, kind of putting the show together and trying to make a live show that is worth people coming to and spending their money on.
Jordan Davis -
Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.
James Hetfield Metallica -
Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz -
It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.
Graham Coxon Blur -
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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Guitar is something that had always been around, when I was growing up playing drums my brother was a guitar player so there was always guitars lying around.
Tim Brennan Dropkick Murphys -
I always travel with my guitar. I take it myself - with me in my hand. I don't like to send it by cargo because it's dangerous. There is no way I would do that.
Juanes -
Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.
Johnny Depp -
The Hamsters really kick ass - Slim is one of your greatest guitar players
Walter Trout