Guitar Quotes
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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.
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I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.
Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
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The Hamsters really kick ass - Slim is one of your greatest guitar players
Walter Trout
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If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
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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
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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
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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
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Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.
Rick Nielsen Cheap Trick
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Just give me a record. You give me a guitar, I'll probably hit a ball with it.
Ilie Nastase
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Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.
Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
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I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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Bass is for people who can't play guitar...
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar
Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
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I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.
Ringo Starr The Beatles
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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
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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
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We have a general frame work we go by usually because it’s all to do with guitar tunings, we try to keep switching to the minimum but we have no real system.
Jerry Horton Papa Roach
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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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What happens is people go, 'I want to play the guitar,' and the first thing they do is hit Google: 'How can I play this?' and the next thing you know, you've learned all these tricks, but you've never learned how to play rhythm guitar with a groove.
Steve Lukather Toto
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It wasn't like the other songs. There was no story, no conversation. This was just the feeling, without words or pictures, and it had nothing to do with Luther or his clean, stinging guitar. It was the sound of being outside, of being alien. It was the pulse that ran under everything and never let you forget that you were strange, that the world hurt just to touch.
Brenna Yovanoff
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Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!
Phil Anselmo Pantera
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I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion