Guitar Quotes
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I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.
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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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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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My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.
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I can't do anything but play guitar.
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B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.
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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 would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' Dangler basslines and said, "I don't like that, do something else." The same goes for the beat and the guitars. I think that's why we were able to make four albums together.
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.
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Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.
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I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.
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The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.
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I bought me a guitar about a year ago, learned how to play in a day or so.
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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.
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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 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.
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Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.
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But the day that I die will be the day that I shut my mouth and put down my guitar.
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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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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'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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When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.
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The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my aspirations. The Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch came out in 1977 and it had a breakdown of the recording costs, then you saw Pete Shelley playing a broken guitar from Woolworths. We already had an idea of the kind of music we wanted to do, but punk showed us a way to do it.
