Guitar Quotes
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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.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.
Jon Bon Jovi
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I play the throat and guitar in 311.
Nick Hexum -
I want to make money playing guitar.
John 5 LOSER -
If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just like burst into a monologue. Your only exercise is when you're in prep or you're working.
Winona Ryder -
I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.
George Thorogood -
I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival -
My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
Merle Haggard
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Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.
Bob Marley -
I definitely have a different perspective on music in general. But once I actually have a guitar in my hands, I think I disappear into the same black hole that I was disappearing into when I was 15.
Bill Orcutt -
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.
Bill Orcutt -
A guitar solo in the same part of every tune - that's been done so much. I think solos shine more when you have them in specific and unexpected places.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance -
For the person who wrote a review saying I am "pretending" to play the guitar,well you obviously haven't done ur research! Its REAL!!
Una Healy -
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.
Tommy Bolin
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What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
Rod Stewart -
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 -
Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
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.
Ruston Kelly -
My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.
Rod Stewart -
I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing.
Taryn Manning Boomkat
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Commercial radio is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.
Elvis Costello -
I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.
Mick Ronson -
I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.
Tommy Bolin -
A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.
Willie Dixon