Guitar Quotes
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The Hamsters really kick ass - Slim is one of your greatest guitar players
Walter Trout -
In the past I experimented a bit with pedals, but it got too much. It was always in the way of making the show somehow. Too many extra things to concentrate on. But I don't think you need much more than to plug a guitar right in & just mess about with what's there, let the fingers do the work.
Anders Björler At the Gates
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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 -
There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, phenomenal drummer, young man with his technique, but do you think he would ever have the opportunity to play like that in another band? Of course he hadn't.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and chords conventionally without having to relearn the fretboard, as one must do when playing in an open tuning.
Warren Haynes The Allman Brothers Band -
My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small.
George Benson -
My first band was an Argentinian folk group when I was 10. When I was 12 I had my electric guitar, and by the time I was 13, the Beatles came into the scene, and that was over. So I have a mixture of all these traditions, and I think that's who I am, a mixture of everything.
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo -
I love melody, and that's what I love about pop music. The words can become what they are through a special melody. I learned to play guitar by myself, and writing songs came with playing guitar, so the writing isn't one part and the music something else.
Anna Ternheim
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I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.
Jamie Lee Curtis -
About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.
Roger McGuinn The Byrds -
It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.
Graham Coxon Blur -
I’ve come to realize that the playing and the guitar/pickup combination are what you need to pay attention to when looking for that type of sound.
Sébastien Lefebvre Simple Plan -
I'm an acoustic guitar owner - in the sense that I own them, and they sit at my house, and I never play them.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.
Jimmy Griffin Black Tie -
It's wet from all the guitar players crying.
Brian Jones The Rolling Stones -
Thom comes in with lots of lyrics, a melody and chords, and usually he strums it on acoustic guitar. we then take it from there and beat it up and arrange it. sometimes they need a lot of arrangement. sometimes they need absolutely nothing. sometimes thom will present a song and it's so obvious how it should be done. those are actually the hardest to do - the ones where we have free scope and it can go in any direction are the easiest ones to do.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
Brian May Queen -
I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.
Johnny Marr Pretenders -
The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.
Chuck Berry
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Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia -
Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.
Jules Shear -
We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
But the day that I die will be the day that I shut my mouth and put down my guitar.
Bradley Nowell