Guitar Quotes
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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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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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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.
Jules Shear
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Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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I can't do anything but play guitar.
Tommy Bolin
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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.
Sean Lennon
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In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.
Stuart Townsend
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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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I'm a giutar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.
Rick Nielsen Cheap Trick
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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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I'm an acoustic guitar owner - in the sense that I own them, and they sit at my house, and I never play them.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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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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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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Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.
Barney Kessel
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I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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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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Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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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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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.
Robert Trujillo Metallica
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I love staying at home and not seeing a guitar for ten days... but then I love that feeling of picking it up again.
Peter Frampton
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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.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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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 never wanted to play guitar when I was younger. I wanted to be a drummer because everybody plays guitar, and I didn't want to do what everybody else wanted to do.
Jack White The White Stripes