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“In my opinion, if you buy a ticket to see me you're buying experience. People don't want to see me stand there and play guitar, they want to party with us.”

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Author:Cody Johnson

“I took piano lessons when I was younger and I've been trying to learn how to play the guitar recently. I'd really like to learn how to play the drums. They're a lot of fun and they require a lot of focus.”

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Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“Music was fundamental in my family. Sang at bars, all the way to church on Sunday. Music in school, played guitar pulls at the house, go to other people's houses and break out the guitars, it was fun. It was always there, I've just been a part of it.”

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Author:Jamey Johnson

“I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.”

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Author:Carole King

“My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.”

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Author:Toby Keith

“Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.”

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Author:Brie Larson

“Kurt Cobain was Nirvana. He named the band, hired its members, played guitar, wrote the songs, fronted the band onstage and in interviews, and took responsibility for the band's business decisions.”

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Author:Courtney Love

“I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.”

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Author:Jonny Lang

“Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.”

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Author:Miranda Lambert

“I still play but for some reason, I am having so much fun playing guitar and singing that I don't really miss it because I've done it for so long like twenty-something years with Motley.”

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Author:Tommy Lee

“My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.”

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Author:Conor Oberst

“I'd like to do a tour with a bunch of people where it's just them and their guitars. It would be like Lilith Fair - only everyone plays alone, and it would be competitive.”

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Author:Liz Phair

“Sitting around home I mostly play acoustic. I've got seven or eight guitars of various sorts, including a baritone. Sometimes at home, because a guitar is just lying around, that's the guitar I pick up rather than actually choosing something. I try to plan ahead for my laziness by leaving interesting things scattered about. If I leave a baritone guitar lying around, that's the one I'll pick up, and I'll start writing baritoney things.”

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Author:Richard Thompson

“I started my career in Dallas, yes. I was born and raised in Dallas. I started my career there when I was very young. My guitar was bigger than I was. That's how young I was.”

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Author:Trini Lopez

“I started out in a heavy metal band with a guy who could really play guitar, and I thought the only thing missing from Guided By Voices was a lead guitarist. In the early days, I would bring people in just to play leads, like Greg Demos and Steve Wilbur.”

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Author:Robert Pollard

“I used to go and do some sitting in with Robert Nighthawk when he were playing at the 708 Club in Chicago. He was a tremendous slideman. I never saw him do anything other than play the slide. I never just saw him just use his hand. He always used a slide. He had a little-bitty drummer we called "Shorty". He was about that high [hand gesture]. And he was his drummer. That's all he had was a slide guitar and a drummer.”

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Author:Junior Wells

“Everything that I do I hear and then I go with my hands, and since I use my hands for both piano and guitar that is kind of hands-on.”

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Author:Kaci Brown

“I worked hard at that through most of the '80s, and in 1990 my house burned in New Hampshire, and my studios and my offices. I had to decide at what level to rebuild, and I decided that I was going to stop trying to be all things to all people, and just go back to playing the guitar.”

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Author:Tom Rush

“I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I was thirteen I got pretty serious about it.”

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Author:Mark Mendoza

“Maybe I feel like I'm writing songs that don't need to be saved or made more interesting by endless overdubs and studio tricks...maybe - remember, where I am with songwriting I have never been before - sparkly guitars and overdubs I've done (and will do again - see instrumental record in above answer)”

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Author:Robin Guthrie

“When I produce someone's record I have to remember it's their record..no matter what I bring to it..er, sometimes that's not too easy:) It is a responsibility made less easy by people I work with encouraging me to play guitar on their record...A soon as I start playing guitar on someone's record it inevitably starts to sound like me...not always a good thing.”

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Author:Robin Guthrie

“If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.”

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Author:Steve Coogan

“The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.”

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Author:Merle Haggard

“The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.”

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Author:David Lee Roth

“When God plays guitar he uses Jeff Beck's hands.”

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Author:Steve Lukather

“I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.”

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Author:Joni Mitchell

“Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.”

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Author:Paul Simon

“We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.”

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Author:Pete Townshend

“As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.”

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Author:Ian Anderson

“"The Hallmark Sessions" is an extraordinary release. Breau plays beautiful chords (sounding a little like Johnny Smith in spots) and inventive single-note lines. It is remarkable that this music was not released until 2003, but a happy event that it was finally put out. This is a must for Breau fans and an important release for all jazz guitar lovers.”

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Author:Scott Yanow

“My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.”

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Author:Joan Jett

“The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.”

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Author:Joan Jett

“I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.”

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Author:Joan Jett

“I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.”

I Can Play Guitar Howl

Author:John Lennon

“My style is so tightly tied in with our songs that I don't think you could even ask me to quit Radiohead and play guitar for another band. I don't think I could do it. It would probably reveal me to be the bluffer that I believe I am. That's how it feels. I wouldn't have the confidence to do anything but this.”

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Author:Jonny Greenwood

“My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.”

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Author:B. B. King

“There's a lot of women in blues music, lots of strong women and that sort of stuff. It's not the first thing that comes to mind when you think about blues. There were a lot of powerful blues guitar players in the olden times that were women. It's just that when you think about blues, you have this one image in your mind.”

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Author:Mirel Wagner

“I don't consider myself a skilled enough instrumentalist to be able to create the atmosphere that I want with just my guitar by myself.”

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Author:Thalia Zedek

“I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.”

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Author:Jay Watson

“I guess I'm interested in pushing the boundaries of the cello without giving up on the idea of playing the cello, if that makes any sense. I have no real interest in putting the cello through different effects to make it sound like a guitar or other instruments.”

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Author:Okkyung Lee

“I've never stopped working on songs and practising singing and guitar.”

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Author:Richard Dawson

“There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.”

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Author:Marnie Stern

“When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well.”

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Author:Marnie Stern

“Working with devices and guitar pedals and mixers and synthesizers is what I do, and I prefer people not focus on that because it's kind of distracting from what the point should be. At least for me, it's to have the primacy of aurality in the experience of that evening.”

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Author:Tim Hecker

“I'm a horrible control freak. It's awful! I'm nice, but if someone is folding some sheets while I am playing the guitar, I keep one eye on the way that they are folding the sheets.”

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Author:Juana Molina

“I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!”

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Author:Grimes

“I'm quite happy for my voice to be pushed up, whereas in the past I wanted it buried with the guitars, or part of the band, not like I was thinking of myself as 'the singer'.”

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Author:Roddy Woomble

“I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar.”

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Author:Birdy

“However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was something I had a growing need for in my life, and that was about when I adopted the neglected guitar I found under our piano and started singing about all the things I could never say.”

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Author:Kina Grannis

“When you first quit your regular job and you become a full-time writer, you are paralyzed with free time. You have so much free time. When you are at home, you have a guitar. There's a cat. You got to find ways to create an environment when writing is like going to work. Be efficient with the hours you put into the book. So I go there the same time, every day - like 7:30 am - and I leave around 2 pm, or longer, if I have a deadline.”

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Author:Matt de la Pena

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