Best Guitar Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 20

“I definitely have a different perspective on music in general. But once I actually have a guitar in my hands, I think I disappear into the same black hole that I was disappearing into when I was 15.”

Thinking Different Hands Black Perspective Guitar Disappear Holes Different Perspective Black Hole

Author:Bill Orcutt

“A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.”

Voice Quality Notes Guitar Electric Horns Acoustics Emulate Electric Guitar

Author:Bill Orcutt

“You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass player playing five strings, take your shoe off and throw it at him.”

Ifs Party Five Four Player Instruments Guitar Shoes Strings Bass Bass Players Bass Guitar

Author:Keith Morris

“It's really cool what you can do with a guitar and a Fender Twin and a space echo.”

Can Do Space Guitar Twins Echoes Really Cool

Author:Tamaryn

“I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.”

Guy Guitar Boxing Poetic Killers Junkie Serials Serial Killer Great Poet Classical Guitar

Author:Mark Kozelek

“Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it.”

Kind Beautiful Nice Seeing Guitar Noise Loud Volume Plugging In

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon.”

Ifs Song Singing Intention Guitar Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Recording Music

Author:King Khan

“I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.”

Writing Long Play Used Easy Sound Long Time Guitar Rhythm Chords

Author:Bradford Cox

“I don't leave my room, and all I am surrounded by are guitars and equipment, y'know? It's not always the best place to be.”

Knows Rooms Guitar Equipment Best Place

Author:Bradford Cox

“When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.”

Fighting Growing Up Growing Guitar

Author:Gary Jarman

“I'm not a good guitar player.”

Player Guitar Guitar Player Gamer

Author:Adam Jones

“Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to be honest - it's mostly melodic parts. I try not to play too many notes. It's just more instrumental music. It's a totally valid criticism if you don't like that kind of thing. It also is maybe a little anachronistic or unnecessary in a certain way.”

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Author:Stephen Malkmus

“I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.”

Writing Different Play Used Style Guitar Different Styles

Author:Rokia Traore

“I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted to come back to the guitar.”

Years Wanted Three Missing Instruments Guitar Albums

Author:Rokia Traore

“Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.”

Play Wanted Courses Sound Guitar Folks Electric

Author:Rokia Traore

“I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.”

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Author:Beck

“I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.”

Way Player Band Guitar Bass Guitar Player Bass Players

Author:Adam Jones

“I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.”

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Author:Mark Lanegan

“I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.”

Persons Two Written Guitar Right Person That Right Person

Author:Erik Rutan

“I very rarely sit down with a guitar and try to write a song. I usually think about it a lot and then I'll try to re-create what was in my head at the time.”

Thinking Writing Trying Song Guitar

Author:Sune Rose Wagner

“I think when I first started discovering I could write songs, I was so naive. And it was after I got broken up with and had my heart sliced up into a bunch of little pieces that I was like, "I'm going to say this." I didn't even know how to play guitar.”

Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Heart Littles Play Song Know How Pieces Broken My Heart Guitar Bunch Discovering Naive Broken Up

Author:Gwen Stefani

“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.”

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Author:David Pajo

“Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.”

Made Guitar Punk Solo Grunge Uncool Guitar Solos

Author:David Pajo

“For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.”

Kind Nice Player Guitar Singers Songwriters Guitar Player

Author:Doug Martsch

“I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.”

Way Play Five Type Guitar Definite Orchestra Symphony Similarity Symphony Orchestras

Author:Glenn Branca

“I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.”

Trying Years Kids Parent Wife Guitar Eight Get Back Divorced

Author:Joshua Homme

“People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul.”

People Thinking Heart Soul Guy Guitar Get Up Songwriting Acoustics Personal Things Acoustic Guitar

Author:Craig Finn

“I made an instrument which I'm really happy about, because I always wanted to have a machine that did this so once I established it as my unique tool, it was like, now I'm going to master it like a guitar.”

Made Wanted Masters Unique Tools Machines Instruments Guitar Really Happy

Author:Jamie Lidell

“There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.”

Trying Said Sound Machines Guitar Drummer Synthesizers Guitar Sound

Author:Matt Tong

“My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.”

Wanted Player Dad Raised Guitar My Dad Obsessed Guitar Player

Author:Zach Condon

“I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.”

Pain Left Bits Half Guitar Bridges Necks Inches Surgery Wraps Wrists Mobility

Author:Zach Condon

“An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all nature, really.”

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Author:Patrick Wolf

“I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar.”

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Author:Dan Bejar

“There were no rules. There's no guide to follow. I would just trust my instincts for some unknown reason. Something inside me would say, "This guitar is not loud enough," and I wouldn't know why. You never know how to reach that point until you've reached it.”

Knows Reason Enough Know How Instinct Guitar Guides Loud

Author:Greg Saunier

“I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.”

People Believe Behinds Jokes Sitting Guitar Singers Honestly Sincere Songwriters Singer Songwriters Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Casey Spooner

“The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's an investment in that territory. But it can lose money because it's very expensive to go to Europe. You can't really just say, like, "Oh, we're gonna take our van and drive to California tomorrow." It's more like, "Oh, we have to fly to London and rent three guitar amps, a bass amp, drums; buy all these flights for four people; hire a driver."”

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Author:Zachary Cole Smith

“With music, I'm comfortable singing to people but I'm not that comfortable playing the guitar.”

People Comfortable Singing Guitar

Author:Bronson Arroyo

“There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.”

Ifs Country Used Guy Player Fans Rocks Guitar Wizards Guitar Player

Author:Joe Perry

“Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.”

People Thinking Knows Sometimes Seems Guitar Electric Womb Cursing Electric Guitar

Author:Patti Smith

“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

“[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.”

People Certain Scene Guitar Instance Purity Bob Electric Dylan Controversial Electric Guitar

Author:T Bone Burnett

“Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.”

Done Rocks Beats Guitar Rap Rock N Roll Buttons

Author:Ice T

“I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing.”

Feels Play Wanted Dies Guitar

Author:Taryn Manning

“I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.”

People Play Guitar Mess Halls Concerts

Author:Norah Jones

“I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.”

Wells Sleep Player Missing Guitar Performers Good Friend Guitar Player Sleep Well

Author:Ronnie Wood

“I put in the sounds of instruments such as the guitar and piano, which everybody hears often, and tried to go with melodies that would sound familiar. Rather than trying to do music that I want to do, I focused on doing music that I want my fans to hear.”

Want Trying Sound Fans Instruments Guitar Focused Familiar Piano Melody

Author:Seungri

“There's a lot of good rappers in England at the moment. There's a lot of good dance acts. A lot of good, young guitar acts. I think a lot of groups came from that dole culture of the late 80's/early 90's - it's not as easy now. I think there's a dearth of working class bands.”

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Author:Ian Brown

“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.”

Way Humans Difficult Sound Voice Lessons Guitar Glad Slides Human Voice Guitar Playing

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“With slide guitar, you're just hanging this piece of glass on your hand. It's a really beautiful instrument in that it's so responsive, you're just slipping your hand back and forth.”

Hands Beautiful Pieces Instruments Guitar Glasses Slides Back And Forth Slipping Really Beautiful

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where you have to learn tons of chords, that's much more difficult.”

People Want Difficult Opinion Guitar Chords Violin Discredit

Author:Bonnie Raitt

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