Guitar Quotes
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We're kind of an international phenomenon.
Michael Stipe R.E.M. -
I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.
Brandy Clark
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I met my manager when I was 17, when I didn't have enough money to buy a set of guitar strings. There are not very many people who are looking out for you and being in business with you when you're at that stage. And it's not in my nature to think that success as a musician makes you any different from anybody else.
Johnny Marr Pretenders -
Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.
Gary Moore -
I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.
Mike Gordon -
Tonight I just need my guitar.
Jimmy Buffett -
I'm a giutar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.
Rick Nielsen Cheap Trick -
I still do one song by myself onstage. it gives people the extremely personal thing where it's just me on guitar. But, I think the songs are better as a band. I think with all of the extra little hooks and backing vocals, it just adds to what my initial idea was.
Butterfly Boucher
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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 -
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 -
I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.
Ringo Starr The Beatles -
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 -
I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
I've told older friends to pick up the guitar because it's a great way to express yourself. It's not all about making money: it's about creating art and working with other people. It's a journey, and it's a really fun thing to do.
Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
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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.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night -
I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night -
I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.
Michelle Branch -
One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved.
George Benson -
My first proper 'Here's your guitar, Joseph' was a 1981 Chiquita, one of those Erlewine travel guitars. And it was good for a four-year-old because it was small.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion -
I get up now at 5:30 in the morning. I practice the guitar for a couple of hours - I do that before I even start my day.
Steve Lukather Toto
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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.
Merle Haggard -
I've always been fascinated with sound, since I was a little kid when my mother Dorothy Dean took me to my first piano lesson. Later on, my guitar, bass guitar, and synthesizer were my secret weapons.
Mike Dean -
I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.
Harry Dean Stanton