Guitar Quotes
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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.
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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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I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.
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Take this rifle, kid. Gimme that guitar.
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While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.
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If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody playing the guitar or piano or a horn arrangement where you can hear the breath. You can almost smell the studio while listening to the music. For me, that's what moves me emotionally, that's what I came from. I think that's always going to work best for me.
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My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.
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I started on drums when I was 13 and played them for two years. Then I went to guitar for a year, played keyboards for a year and a half, and went back to guitar.
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The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.
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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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I remember I was five or six when Elvis came out, all the girls were going crazy. I listened to his music and always loved the guitar music in the background.
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That's why I love music so much. It completely saved me. There are so many feelings you can't explain, and you can hear one note on a guitar and somehow that sound explains what you can't put into words.
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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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Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.
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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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What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting ... I wanted to be part of it.
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I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band.
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George had taken off all ten of his fingers and tied them into a bundle with what appeared to be either his own small intestines, or a guitar string; as I walked into the room, he lovingly placed the bundle on his head.
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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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With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.
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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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All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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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.
