Guitar Quotes
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If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
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Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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My dad and I are best friends. He's pretty much responsible for the way I turned out. He would provide a little artistic inspiration here and there in the form of a guitar, stuff like that.
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The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
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I guess I'm interested in pushing the boundaries of the cello without giving up on the idea of playing the cello, if that makes any sense. I have no real interest in putting the cello through different effects to make it sound like a guitar or other instruments.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
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When Tom Morello picks up the guitar, I'm sure what he sees is totally different from what I do, but I love the way he plays.
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Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.
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I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.
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I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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As a youngster I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.
