Guitar Quotes
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I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.
Glenn Hughes
Brazen Abbot
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
Kat Dennings
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From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
Pat Metheny
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
Madeleine Peyroux
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A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
Halsey
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Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.
Flea
Jane's Addiction
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Andres Segovia, the great name for guitar, he put classical guitar on the map. He was the proponent of it, the best in the world. So I was listening to a record that he had made, and a little bauble happened in the middle of the record. A finger slipped, and I said, 'Wait a minute. He's not allowed to make mistakes,' - my mind.
George Benson
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
Page McConnell
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When Tom Morello picks up the guitar, I'm sure what he sees is totally different from what I do, but I love the way he plays.
Joe Perry
Aerosmith
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
Warren Zevon
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
Ace Frehley
Kiss
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When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife.
Gary Allan
