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“If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars aren't good for learning lead, because you can't play up very high on the neck and they take heavier-gauge strings which makes it hard to bend notes”

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Author:Eddie Van Halen

“The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.”

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Author:Glenn Hughes

“I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.”

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Author:Ian Anderson

“When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.”

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Author:Ian Anderson

“My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way”

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Author:Dan Fogelberg

“Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.”

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Author:David Lee Roth

“Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why I like it . . . The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that’s my idea of a good time.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.”

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Author:Chuck Berry

“Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.”

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Author:Juliana Hatfield

“Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?”

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Author:Andres Segovia

“On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.”

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Author:Tommy Shaw

“I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.”

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Author:Mark Knopfler

“We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.”

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Author:Ian MacKaye

“Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.”

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Author:Dan Auerbach

“I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.”

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Author:Dan Auerbach

“I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.”

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Author:Eugene Chadbourne

“As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.”

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Author:Jonathan Demme

“Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.”

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Author:Dan Fogelberg