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“It wasn't until I moved to Nashville that I realized what an amazing community it is. It's the thing I've been missing my whole career, the feeling of being able to sit around with a guitar and have people know each other's songs and know songs from people who've influenced all of us. When I moved here pretty early on Vince Gill started calling me to do guitar pulls, and I thought, gosh, this is just like heaven on earth down here.”

People Knows Whole Feelings Able Earth Song Heaven Community Careers Missing Calling Moved Guitar I Realized Nashville Heaven On Earth

Author:Sheryl Crow

“When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.”

Bits Pieces Picks Guitar Storytelling Melody Bits And Pieces

Author:Ray LaMontagne

“I sing a bit and play guitar.”

Play Bits Guitar

Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.”

School Jobs Singing Guitar Autumn Classroom School System

Author:Don McLean

“I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.”

World Real Whole Found Fun Interesting Fantasy Exciting Guitar Whole Life Real Life Teenager Sail Fantasy Worlds

Author:Don McLean

“I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.”

World Firsts Play My Family Guitar Wide Profession Family And Friends

Author:Don McLean

“Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.”

I Can Can Do Memories Instinct Guitar Muscles Muscle Memory

Author:St. Vincent

“I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.”

Knows Trying I Can Body Natural Know How Imagine Guitar

Author:St. Vincent

“I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do.”

Guitar Playing Guitar

Author:St. Vincent

“I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.”

Kind Guitar Obsessed

Author:St. Vincent

“I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.”

Age Wanted My Own Band Guitar Playing Guitar Apprenticeship

Author:St. Vincent

“I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.”

Ideas Passion Equal Guitar My Passion

Author:Steve Vai

“I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.”

Years Kind Different Hours Development Tools Ears Guitar Musical Glorious Different Kinds Invaluable Different Kinds Of Music Transcribing

Author:Steve Vai

“I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. If I wanted to learn somebody's stuff, like with Clapton, when I wanted to learn how he was getting some of his sounds - which were real neat - I learned how to make the sounds with my mouth and then copied that with my guitar.”

People Ifs Real Wanted Stuff Sound Records Listening Mouths Sitting Guitar Neat

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“I mainly use Stratocasters. I like a lot of different kinds of guitars, but for what I do, it seems that a Stratocaster is the most versatile. I can pretty much get any sound out of it, and I use stock pickups.”

Kind I Can Different Use Seems Sound Guitar Different Kinds Versatile Pickups

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“I never liked mellow sounding guitar.”

Guitar Mellow

Author:Tom Verlaine

“For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.”

Song Difficult Guitar Melody Meant To Be Difficult Things Keyboards Percussion Were Not Meant To Be

Author:Dweezil Zappa

“I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.”

Mean Play Song Player Down And Guitar Magazines Creeds Offense Guitar Player

Author:Dweezil Zappa

“I guess anybody who plays can say that they play guitar, but if you want to be a guitarist, you've got to practice all the time and you've got to get good at it. It's more than just having one and playing it.”

Ifs Want Play Practice Guitar Guitarist

Author:Jake Pitts

“Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.”

Knows Running Song Guitar Folks Singers

Author:Brownie McGhee

“They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'”

Men Said Play Changed He Man Blue Guitar They Said

Author:Wallace Stevens

“In Utero is a testament to the artistic vision of Kurt Cobain. It's kind of a weird record, and it's strangely beautiful at the same time. And if you look at Kurt's paintings and his drawings - he even did a sculpture for me - it's a rising, tortured-spirit person. It's kind of weird. It's done well, but it's like what Dave was saying about having your own sound. Kurt was a great songwriter. He knew he had a good ear for a hook [and was] a great singer, great guitar player, and In Utero is a good representation of what he liked in art and how he expressed himself.”

“Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!”

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Author:Phil Anselmo

“I think Clapton is brilliant. He's the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.”

Thinking Want Made Play Moved Guitar Brilliant

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.”

Rooms Guitar

Author:Kurt Cobain

“And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.”

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.”

I Can Teach Notes Guitar Smoke

Author:Ace Frehley

“I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.”

Littles Said House One Day My Friends Guitar Tiny Electric Volume Chords Electric Guitar

Author:Ace Frehley

“A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.”

Play Song Guitar Genes Bass

Author:Ace Frehley

“I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.”

Play Practice Week Picks Guitar Spontaneity

Author:Ace Frehley

“I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.”

Space Guitar Get Up Solo Outfits Guitar Solos

Author:Ace Frehley

“One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D tuning, and of course, also being a guitar player, it's one of the songs that I really like the riff on it.”

Reason Song Courses Player Guitar Reason Why Guitar Player Tuning

Author:Chad Channing

“I'd like to know how to play the guitar.”

Knows Play Know How Guitar

Author:Mario Vazquez

“Don't be precious about anything-much less a certain guitar sound. There is always another interesting sound or effect just waiting to be discovered.”

Certain Waiting Sound Interesting Effects Guitar Guitar Sound

Author:Robin Guthrie

“Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.”

Ifs Different Use Certain Song Next Example Treats Guitar Track Tunes

Author:Keith Richards

“Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.”

Way Use Hands Sound Picks Guitar

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports?”

People Want Care Able Certain Sports Train Guitar Shoes Heavy Pairs Electric Who Cares Pair Of Shoes Luggage Electric Guitar

Author:Lisa Loeb

“Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.”

I Can Play Song Bits Rocks Couple Musician Picks Guitar Singers Rock And Roll

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.”

Guitar Contests Playing Guitar Beauty Contest

Author:Ernie Isley

“I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.”

Firsts Self Taught Guitar October Self Taught

Author:Ernie Isley

“I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.”

Children Littles Play Kids Wanted Sides Dark Rocks Band Late Guitar Shy Little Kid Dark Side Rock Bands

Author:Yul Vazquez

“I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to find myself and define a personality and a way of being different, and that's a thing that's going to help me to survive in a world of many people playing the guitar.”

People World Way Different Hard Helping Wanted Heard Personality Guitar Help Me Household Being Different Showy

Author:Martha Wainwright

“I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.”

Ifs Knows Children Persons Used Night Left Rooms Dad Guitar My Dad Used To Be Legacy Hotel Realising Venues Hotel Rooms

Author:Martha Wainwright

“Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.”

Writing Wells Hard Inspiration Song Hours Week Hard Work Guitar Piano

Author:Bjorn Ulvaeus

“I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.”

Guitar Nine Collecting

Author:Scott Putesky

“My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!”

Giving Giving Up Guitar Don't Give Up

Author:Iris DeMent

“I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.”

Long Long Time Guitar Piano Bass Playing Drums

Author:Lukas Haas

“My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.”

Littles Play Mom Dad Guitar My Dad My Mom Banjos

Author:Page McConnell

“I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.”

Trying Play Song Growing Up Growing Band Guitar Piano

Author:Page McConnell

“People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.”

People Asks Stuff Guitar

Author:Joey Santiago

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