Guitar Quotes
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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.
David Torn
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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.
Etta James
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I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.
Mike Figgis
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The guitar and flute duet was very fascinating. You don't generally see guitar and flute playing together so I really liked how it came together and blended so well. I enjoyed it a lot.
Amy Davis
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The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
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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.
Ryan Adams
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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.
Edward Furlong
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In order to be a guitar player, you have to play guitar.
Joel Hoekstra
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I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.
Cat Power
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I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.
Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
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My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.
Zach Condon
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I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
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George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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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.
William Christopher Handy
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Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up...
Billy Gibbons ZZ Top
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I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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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.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
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Their lead guitar sounded like what would happen if someone wedged a traffic accident into a blender.
Brenna Yovanoff
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Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.
Barney Kessel
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I'm a giutar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.
Rick Nielsen Cheap Trick
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The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.
Harry Chapin
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We’re a rock band and we don’t claim to be anything else but we do like to try new things. Having electronics in the sound is more to do with texture and depth, were constantly doing harmony guitar and overdubs so we’d though we should try it to that with electronics and have a more distinct type of sound.
Jerry Horton Papa Roach