Guitar Quotes
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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.
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I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing.
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When it is possible that people don't understand my English, I take my guitar and speak with my music!
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I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play 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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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.
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I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
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I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.
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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.
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I had been playing guitar since I was 12. When I was 16, some band had a show and needed a singer... so I did it. I sounded like pure fuckin shit, but it felt natural... so I stuck at it.
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The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.
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I play the throat and guitar in 311.
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A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.
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To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.
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May was so great to work with, he even took me over to Japan for some dates. It blew me away when he let me play his guitar on stage with him.
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The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.
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hen I was starting my journey as a young guitar player, I was listening to The Beatles, the Stones, and all the British invasion bands, Top 40, Motown, and all the great music of the '60s. Then the alien ship landed, and life changed again forever... Jimi Hendrix.
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No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.
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When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.
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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.
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My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.
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But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
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When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.
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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.
