Guitar Quotes
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My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.
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I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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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.
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One of the signature things about Heart was the acoustic guitar in a rock format, which you didn't hear that often.
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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.
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Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello.
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I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.
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In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.
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I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.
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If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.
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As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.
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I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!
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When I wrote the first album I had never played live before, and I'd never been on tour. So that was really just me and my guitar.
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That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.
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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.
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Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.
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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.
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I started playing piano and guitar when I was in elementary school, and then I was finally like, 'I want to sing.' So I started taking voice lessons and decided I wanted to go to an art school and take music seriously.
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I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.
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I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.
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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.
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I'm a giutar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.
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I don't recall what the first record I bought was, but I definitely remember hearing Creedence's 'Born on the Bayou' and going out and buying it. The guitar and drums in that band were really good. I loved the words to the title track, and Fogerty's voice sounded just great.
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Tonight I just need my guitar.
