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Quote by Nuno Bettencourt

“If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.”

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Nuno Bettencourt, born on September 20, 1966, is a renowned guitarist from Portugal. He is highly regarded in the rock music world for his unique playing style and musical talent. more

“You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music I feel, concenctrate on the music, focus on what you're playing and let the playing come out. Once you start thinking about doing this or doing that, it's not good. What you are doing is like a language. You have a whole collection of musical ideas and thoughts that you've accumulated through your musical history plus all the musical history of the whole world and it's all in your subconscious and you draw upon it when you play”

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Author:Joe Pass

“You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up”

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Author:Keith Richards

“When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out 'how do I get in the fast lane going that way?'. I'm going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.”

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Author:Eric Clapton

“I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the craft needs to do. It's basic practicing of the basic elements. I try to practice like a well rounded regiment of things where I can kind of do whatever I wanna do and I also have to practice the actual songs to keep that under my fingers as well.”

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Author:John Petrucci

“Forget about every other lesson in the book. You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.”

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Author:Al Di Meola

“Every July, August and part of September I escape of the guitar, I escape of Paco de Lucia and I go to Mexico to the Carrabian. I have a little house there where I spend two months listening to music, no playing because I don't bring the guitar with me, fishing and cooking my fish and charging the batteries for new concerts.”

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Author:Paco de Lucia

“I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.”

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Author:Slash

“I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of ideas by the time I get to my second or third chorus.”

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Author:Larry Carlton

“My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.”

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Author:Sasha Cohen

“I remember everyone asking, 'What did you do to get so thin? You looked great.' I looked emaciated.”

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Author:Rosario Dawson

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