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Guitar Quotes
"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
"Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months."
"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."
"I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument."
"I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable."
"I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands."
"I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired."
"More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp."
"But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere."
"Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school."
"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."
"Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar."
"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
"For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar."
"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
"I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits."
"It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different."
"A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts."
"As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar."
"I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players."
"I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing."
"I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living."
"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."
"If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy."
"To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do."
"A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs."
"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice."
"I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord."
"I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments."
"My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it."
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