Guitar Quotes
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My first memory of guitar was seeing my father play one.
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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 think the furthest I ever got was Guitar Hero. If I could start a band like that, I think I could do it.
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Over the years, I've had to learn to play. For example, when 'Lennon' was on Broadway, I learned my way around the guitar chords because originally we were all going to play the instruments without a band.
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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 had a guitar sitting around, and it just happened to have four strings on it, and I would sit around watching TV and playing it. I ended up writing bunches of songs around four strings.
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From a guitar player's point of view it's generally harder writing parts to songs than finding a part to base a song on.
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Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.
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I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.
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When my parents gave me that first guitar, I became totally obsessed. I would stay in my room all the time with it, and my parents were concerned.
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All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.
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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've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.
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I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.
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I can embarrass myself very easily on guitar. It's funny because people say to me I can play anything; I'm God on the guitar. But I could make a big list of everything I can't play... I'm grateful that people don't notice that.
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One time I said: maybe I should burn a guitar tonight. You know smash a guitar or something like that. And they said: yeah, yeah! I said: you really think I should? They said: yeah, that'd be cool. I said: well, ok.
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I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.
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A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing.
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If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.
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If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour.
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I don't need to speak...I play the guitar!
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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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It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.
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When I found music I thought, that's what I want to do, but the idea of it being a job never crossed my mind. I just wanted to be good enough to pick up a guitar at a party, or if I saw a girl I liked, to work up the courage to play a song.
