Guitar Quotes
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I saw this trend happening with the proliferation of guitar clinics and schools. And I was approached to do a camp in the past, but I wanted to have a good enough idea because most of them are just about jamming and learning. I decided I wanted a theme for each camp.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz -
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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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 -
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ... I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened. ... I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. ... I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.
Jack White The White Stripes -
It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.
Ryan Adams -
But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.
Midge Ure Ultravox -
I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!
Nancy Wilson Heart
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When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.
Wyclef Jean Fugees -
I'm like a lot of people in my generation. Eventually I went to get an electric guitar.
John Verity Argent -
My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.
Jason Aldean -
A guitar is a guitar. Whether it was made yesterday or 51 years ago, if it's good, it will stand the test of time.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion -
I've really gotten over pedals. I can't keep up with this craze of boutique pedals that make you sound like everything but your guitar. I can't get my head around it.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion -
Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
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I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
I worked with George Harrison - who was the reason I started playing guitar.
Steve Lukather Toto -
If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.
Micky Dolenz The Monkees -
A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.
Bill Orcutt -
My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
I would have liked to grow up in Liverpool and become a rocker. I would have put my boots on, jeans and a leather jacket, and long hair and played the guitar.
Hasso Plattner -
I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.
Slash Guns N' Roses -
Sometimes we woke up and feel like a Guitar Master, sometimes we woke up and feel like a complete fool. but that's the fun part of learning guitar.
Tommy Emmanuel