Guitar Quotes
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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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Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but a guitar and conquers the world. And we've done that again, and again, and again – Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters.
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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'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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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.
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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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James Hetfield, I mean, the minute he plugs in his guitar and adjusts the tone knob, he comes up with the world's greatest riff.
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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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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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You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.
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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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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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Tonight I just need my guitar.
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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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The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.
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I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.
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I worked with George Harrison - who was the reason I started playing guitar.
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Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.
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I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.
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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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I went through a period in my life where I didn't have money to buy ramen noodles and peanut butter and jelly, but I also needed to go to the guitar store and buy strings and picks and polish and rags. I couldn't live with myself if I didn't play guitar.
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I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play 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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It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.
