Guitar Quotes
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Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.
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It is definitely more rock oriented – Chester comes up with the "kernel" that becomes the songs on his acoustic guitar – so they tend to turn out a bit more guitar rock. They are more riff/vocal focused.
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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.
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I suppose I am proud of what has gone on, after all I only ever wanted to play the guitar for a living, and that is what I am still doing.
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That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.
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I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.
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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.
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I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.
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These days I don't look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I've got no objections to stealing them if that seems like a good idea. I'm sure that I'm still influenced by Mark Knopfler and Eddie Van Halen as well......I can't play like Eddie Van Halen. I wish I could. I sat down to try some of those ideas and can't do it. I don't know if I could ever get any of that stuff together. Sometimes I think I should work at the guitar more.
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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.
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If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.
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My first memory of guitar was seeing my father play one.
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I can't do anything but play guitar.
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One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.
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Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.
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When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.
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I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
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Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.
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I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.
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A guitar is so tactile, and when you're playing bends - and bending notes is a big part of my style - there are so many notes within the note you're bending from and the note you're bending up to.
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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.
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I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.
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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.
