Guitar Quotes
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The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.
Colin Meloy
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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
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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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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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It's wet from all the guitar players crying.
Brian Jones
The Rolling Stones
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I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.
Kim Thayil
Soundgarden
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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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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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I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?
Steve Jones
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B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.
Chris Matthews
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Deep Purple, 'In Rock'. My cousin got me into it. I really dug it and that's why I started playing guitar. There's been other albums over the years, but that was the first one.
Phil Collen
Def Leppard
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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 have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.
Joe Bonamassa
Black Country Communion
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.
Eric Clapton
Blind Faith
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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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I still do one song by myself onstage. it gives people the extremely personal thing where it's just me on guitar. But, I think the songs are better as a band. I think with all of the extra little hooks and backing vocals, it just adds to what my initial idea was.
Butterfly Boucher
