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“Prometheus, you’ll remember, stole fire from the gods and gave it to the rest of us. That’s what I want to do with guitar instruction and music theory. I want to steal it from the fog of ancient rubrics and the rarified prison of control represented by the academy. I want it liberated from the pulpit and the throne, the pit and the stick . . .”

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Book:The Guitar Decoder Ring: Featuring SIGIL - the New Language of Guitar

Source: The Guitar Decoder Ring: Featuring SIGIL - the New Language of Guitar

“You have to utilize what's inside you to create what you want to create. If it doesn't come out pure, it's no good.”

Creativity Composing Guitar Playing

Book:Duane Allman Guitar Anthology | Guitar Recorded Versions | Note-for-Note Electric Guitar Transcriptions | 20 Southern Rock and Blues Classics for Intermediate to Advanced Players Collection

Source: Duane Allman Guitar Anthology | Guitar Recorded Versions | Note-for-Note Electric Guitar Transcriptions | 20 Southern Rock and Blues Classics for Intermediate to Advanced Players Collection

“Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.”

Guitar Guitar Playing

Author:Dave Navarro

“Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.”

Sticks Guitar Showing Off Guitar Playing

Author:Bert Jansch

“Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.”

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Author:John Frusciante

“This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out.”

Thinking I Can Sound Imagine Crazy Guitar Piano Guitar Playing

Author:Ryan Adams

“I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.”

Approach Instruments Guitar Fragile Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Guitar Playing Finesse

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.”

Thinking Today Guitar Guitar Playing

Author:Joe Satriani

“Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.”

Mind Ideas Together Talent Unique Guitar Mind Set Guitar Playing

Author:Slash

“I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.”

Way I Can Moving Speak Poor Guitar One Way Embarrassed Guitar Playing

Book:Lennon Remembers

Source: Lennon Remembers

“Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.”

Easy Difficult Guitar Guitar Playing

Author:Kirk Hammett

“For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.”

Thinking Important Too Much Danger Music Is Instruments Important Things Guitar Guitar Playing

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.”

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Author:Trace Adkins

“Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.”

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Author:Jimi Hendrix

“The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.”

Love Music Sacrifice Guitar Burned Singer Songwriters Guitar Player Things You Love Guitar Playing Guitar Music

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.”

Style Guitar Pops Traditional Urban Acoustics Synthesis Guitar Playing

Author:John Oates

“Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.”

People Important Play Golf Guitar Guitar Playing

Author:Merle Haggard

“Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.”

Knows Style Exciting Guitar Solo Desperation Urgency Guitar Playing Sense Of Urgency

Author:Richard Lloyd

“I was pillaging a lot of music that had nothing to do with guitar playing, using a lot of strange tunings and voicings and chord structures that aren't really that natural to the guitar; I ended up developing a harmonic palette that's not particularly natural to the guitar because I was always trying to make my guitar sound like something else.”

Trying Sound Natural Strange Structure Guitar Developing Chords Always Trying Like Something Palette Tuning Guitar Playing Guitar Sound Pillaging

Author:Daniel Rossen

“Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.”

Names Guitar Songwriting Satisfying Household Envious Guitar Playing

Author:David Byrne

“There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.”

Knows Hands Three Found Strong Paper Computer Tools Tables Guitar Files Paragraph Typewriters Guitar Playing Folders

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it was a music college and we had to take instrument classes there - so I think guitar playing and guitar sounds have always been an influence.”

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Author:Christian Fennesz

“I'm looking for anything interesting in the guitar playing, songwriting, artwork, and production. If you look at the stack of CDs on my desk and in my car, you'll find a very wide range of music under the umbrella of metal.”

Ifs Looks Interesting Car Guitar Productions Wide Range Songwriting Metals Desks Cds Artwork Umbrella Guitar Playing

Author:David Pajo

“I did all my guitar playing at my house. And then finally, I was throwing hay and stuff working in Stockton and somebody offered - somehow they had heard me singing at the house and said: Hey, I'll hire you for our fraternity party or sorority party. And I said: Well, are they going to pay me? And he said: Yeah, we'll pay you 50 bucks.”

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Author:Chris Isaak

“I'm glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn't that difficult to do. I didn't take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.”

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Author:Bonnie Raitt

“As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down.”

Knows Kind Term Style Jazz Guitar Folks Songwriting Pins Folk Music Celtic Guitar Playing

Author:Ted Leo

“When I first knew Bob Dylan, he lived in the Village. And for a man who, years after, would disdain publicity or any attempts at interviews, whenever I'd write something about him, he'd be on the street corner saying, `When's it going to run? When's it going to run?' But I must say that album that was - it was the second album he did, and though I've never been a fan of his guitar-playing, he did - I have to admit, he did catch the Zeitgeist of the time.”

Men Writing Years Firsts Running Fans Streets Guitar Albums Corners Interviews Village Bob Dylan Publicity Disdain Zeitgeist Street Corners Guitar Playing

Author:Nat Hentoff

“My dad brings a deep-seated knowledge of the British folk genre, and a lot of my love for guitar playing comes from learning from him and his influences, which eventually became my influences.”

Influence Dad Guitar My Dad Folks British Genre Guitar Playing

Author:Joel Plaskett

“We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.”

Trying Play Care Music Guitar Being Yourself Idols Blues Music Guitar Playing

Author:B. B. King

“Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.”

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Author:Jimmy Page

“The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.”

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Author:Lou Reed

“If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.”

“The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.”

Firsts Bigs My Own Saws Fans Months Periods Stones Guitar Concerts Rolling Fabulous Rolling Stones Guitar Playing Gallagher Lizzy

Author:Robert Smith

“So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.”

Trying Bigs Brother Guitar Playing Guitar Guitar Playing My Big Brother

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.”

Source: Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett

“If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.”

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Author:Joe Pass

“Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.”

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Author:Wes Montgomery

“I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.”

Way Remember Bits Waiting Enjoy Singing Guitar Remember When Chores Guitar Playing

Author:Eric Clapton

“My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.”

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Author:Eric Clapton

“I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.”

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Author:John Lee Hooker

“My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.”

Father Player Standards Raised Guitar Guitar Player High Standards Guitar Playing

Author:Billy Corgan

“I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.”

Firsts Voice Rich Taken Heard Guitar Soulful Guitar Playing

Author:Lucinda Williams

“The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.”

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Author:Arto Lindsay

“I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.”

Want Use Notes Guitar Maps Solo Hook Guitar Playing Guitar Solos

Author:Brian Setzer

“Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry.”

World Opportunity Wish Music Extraordinary Guitar Artistry Guitar Playing

Author:George Benson

“,,, all around it would have to be Eddie Cochran, because it wasn't just music with him; it was his guitar playing, his look, his singing, I'd say that, all things considered, he's probably my favorite "cat" of all time”

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Author:Brian Setzer

“Another guitar player who had a tremendous influence on my life was Howard Roberts ... I'd listened to a lot of Tal Farlow, Johnny Smith and Kenny Burrell, and I was certainly into those guys, but I was awestruck at the intensity and fire in Howards' guitar playing... for me, it became a roadmap.”

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Author:Jeff Baxter

“Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.”

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Author:J.J. Cale

“Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming... ...clouds of educated gnat-notes.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.”

Spiritual Intellectual Guitar Extremes Height Guitar Playing

Author:John Frusciante