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Guitar Quotes

"I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar."

Vivian Campbell, Irish Musician

Guitar, Job, School

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"I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour."

Dave Mustaine, American Musician

Guitar, Jazz, Play

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"The guitar chose me."

Charlie Byrd, American Musician

"Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties."

Kirk Hammett, American Musician

"Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing."

Phil Lesh, American Musician

"If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet."

Andy Summers, English Musician

Guitar, Needs, Sound

"As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like."

Brad Paisley, American Musician

"I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it."

Jamie Lee Curtis, American Actress

"It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam."

Graham Coxon, German Musician

Guitar, Play, Want

"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."

Brian Setzer, American Musician

"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."

Suzi Quatro, American Musician

"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs."

Dick Dale, American Musician

Guitar, Romantic, Songs

"I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it."

Jeremy Spencer, British Musician

Guitar, Simplicity, Songs

"I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs."

Dweezil Zappa, American Musician

Guitar, Play, Songs

"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."

Colin Greenwood, British Musician

"I'm not a good guitar player."

Adam Jones, American Musician

"I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt."

Marc Ribot, American Musician

"I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar."

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Musician

"My sunglasses are like my guitar."

Patti Smith, American Musician

"So I started to learn guitar right away."

Piper Perabo, American Actress

"The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar."

Andy Summers, English Musician

Guitar, Obvious, Sound

"Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own."

Daisy Berkowitz, American Musician

"There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples."

Daisy Berkowitz, American Musician

Guitar, May, Will

"For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument."

Andy Summers, English Musician

Guitar, Writing

"I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school."

Alvin Lee, English Musician

Guitar, Practice, School

"On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me."

Tommy Shaw, American Musician

Guitar, Key, Reason

"The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish."

George Benson, American Musician

Guitar, Today, World

"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"

Iris DeMent, American Musician

"My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am."

Joan Jett, American Musician

"I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around."

Jimi Hendrix, American Musician

"Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year."

Adrian Belew, American Musician

"If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song."

Christopher Cross, American Musician

Guitar, Play, Song

"Guitar playing isn't really for everybody."

Brad Paisley, American Musician

"The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown."

Dick Dale, American Musician

"I never liked mellow sounding guitar."

Tom Verlaine, American Musician

"Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it."

Juliana Hatfield, American Musician

Guitar, Interest

"As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with."

Boz Scaggs, American Musician

Guitar, Play, Style

"But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen."

Krist Novoselic, American Musician

"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar."

Tina Weymouth, American Musician

"I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article."

Adrian Belew, American Musician

Guitar, Secrets, Years

"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."

Kevin Eubanks, American Musician

Guitar, Play, Reason

"Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis."

Andy Gibb, Australian Musician

Guitar, Play, Songs

"I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke."

Ace Frehley, American Musician

"I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid."

Warren Zevon, American Musician

"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar."

Rick Springfield, American Musician

"The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind."

Brian May, English Musician

"I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion."

Teena Marie, American Musician

"I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing."

Billie Joe Armstrong, American Musician

"I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano."

Leo Kottke, American Musician

"Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now."

Roy Wood, English Musician

Guitar, Mind, Now, Right

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