Guitar Quotes
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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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We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
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I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.
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But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.
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I'm an acoustic guitar owner - in the sense that I own them, and they sit at my house, and I never play them.
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A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.
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Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away, Somethin' throwed away. And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day.
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I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.
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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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All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.
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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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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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Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.
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Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.
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Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.
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Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, but there's something to be said for just a voice and a guitar
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In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.
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Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up...
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Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.
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I like the piano a lot better 'cause it seemed like I got a lot more instant music out of the piano than I did with the guitar.
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I don't play a lot of instruments so when it comes to the song writing process I don't have a lot to do with that. A lot of times it's just acoustic guitar and a small riff that produces a song. Ultimately you want to write a song that people are going to enjoy and that you love to play, most importantly you have to write it for yourself first.
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I worked with George Harrison - who was the reason I started playing guitar.
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I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.
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As far as guitar goes, it's weird to have such a challenging activity in my life for so long - I love it. It kicks my ass every day.
