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Guitar Quotes
"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice."
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"I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument."
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"If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs."
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"If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy."
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"I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed."
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"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."
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"In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures."
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"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."
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"So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top."
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"As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like."
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"For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument."
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"Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar."
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"I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it."
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"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."
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"More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp."
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"I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword."
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"Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers."
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"Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own."
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"I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke."
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"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
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"It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it."
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"I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange."
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"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."
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