Guitar Quotes
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My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.
Aaron Neville
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If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
Daisy Berkowitz
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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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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
B. B. King
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
Callie Thorne
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I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
P. J. Harvey
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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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Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.
Angus McKinnon Young
AC/DC
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I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.
Gary Clark Jr.
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To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
Sammy Hagar
Van Halen
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I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.
Jack O'Connell
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
Flume
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There's no secret, but inspiration has to find you working. And that's one of the key things that I've always remembered. And if I put my mind to it tonight, I think I could take a guitar, and by 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, something will have happened - I'll have had something to hang onto. But I think that's the key.
Justin Hayward
The Moody Blues
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One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.
Yuna
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My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
Iris DeMent
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
Dan Fogelberg
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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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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
Gavin DeGraw
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
B. B. King
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Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.
Ritchie Blackmore
Blackmore's Night
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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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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
B. B. King
