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Guitar Quotes
I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that its fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter. - Jack Prelutsky Quotes
Im 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 Johns. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt. - Marc Ribot Quotes
Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin. - Michael Stipe Quotes
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. Its fragile. I dont have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing. - Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. Thats all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way. - Syd Barrett Quotes
We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play. - Arto Lindsay Quotes
I was a schooled musician. When I made Blue Velvet, I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that. - Bobby Vinton Quotes
So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I dont think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to. - Lee Ann Womack Quotes
My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums. - Jeremy London Quotes
Its been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. - Andy Summers Quotes
There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing. - Graham Coxon Quotes
Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I dont 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 songs all right, I wouldnt choose to sing it now. - Roy Wood Quotes
I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head. - Jeremy Irons Quotes
I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since Id cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power. - John Fogerty Quotes
I started playing guitar kind of by accident. - Ryan Cabrera Quotes
The most obvious thing you cant do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar. - Andy Summers Quotes
For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion. - Dweezil Zappa Quotes
It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldnt remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me. - Andy Partridge Quotes
Even though there are some great keyboard players on the album, there are a number of songs with no keyboard on them and the backing is all guitar oriented. This is first time Ive ever done this actually. - Lee Ritenour Quotes
When the Box Tops first started out, I couldnt play guitar much at all. Only after we had our first hit records did I start playing. - Alex Chilton Quotes
Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Huberts a great man, and again, you know, I dont play the guitar very good, but when Im playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert. - Elvis Costello Quotes
Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. Hes overrated. - Ritchie Blackmore Quotes
And if its not there - if that little melody is not in my head, or if I just dont really feel like picking up the guitar - I just dont do it. - Boz Scaggs Quotes
I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music. - Doc Watson Quotes
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 Quotes
Yeah. Im amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I dont play well at all. I wouldnt even attempt for a second to play in public. - Ben E King Quotes
I dont understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off. - Jeff Beck Quotes
Im tired of being around men all the time. Im going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and Ill play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses. - Brian Molko Quotes
If Im playing with Ozzy its just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like Im studying for the SATs. - Zakk Wylde Quotes
What I do now is all my dads fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. - Rod Stewart Quotes
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