Guitar Quotes
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The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.
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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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When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.
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I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.
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When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.
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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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Tonight I just need my guitar.
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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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I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!
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When I first heard the song 'Eruption,' which is Eddie Van Halen's most famous solo composition, I was confused because it sounded incredible, but I didn't know what it was. I didn't know if it was a guitar. I didn't know if it was a synthesizer or a keyboard. I couldn't figure it out.
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I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical 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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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.
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Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin.
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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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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 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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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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I definitely have a different perspective on music in general. But once I actually have a guitar in my hands, I think I disappear into the same black hole that I was disappearing into when I was 15.
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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'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.
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Looping isn't an effect: it's your playing, only more of it and, if you hang with it, it'll uncover previously hidden facets from the body of your music. Remember: the original source of any loop is whatever your sound is, at the moment of input.
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Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.
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All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.
