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Guitar Quotes
"It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before."
"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."
"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."
"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
"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."
"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."
"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."
"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."
"Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive."
"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"
"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
"So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others."
"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."
"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."
"I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar."
"I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar."
"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."
"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back."
"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."
"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."
"In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures."
"We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano."
"I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed."
"I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like."
"I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what."
"I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way."
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