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“I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!”

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

Sticks Guitar Showing Off Guitar Playing

“Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of Christ.”

Happens Eye Guy Christ Stage Worship Glory Filled Guitar

Author:Matt Papa

“And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.”

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Author:John Frusciante

“Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.”

World Should Littles Guitar Solo Guitar Solos

Author:John Frusciante

“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

“I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.”

Thinking Player Guitar Rhythm Songwriters Guitar Player

Author:Rick Nielsen

“I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.”

Opportunity Equal Guitar Equal Opportunity Offenders

Author:Rick Nielsen

“Stage presence is not something I spend a whole lot of time thinking about. On the one hand, I do, because I have, like, favorite front-people and I know what's excited me to see in a band. But I can't be David Yow [Jesus Lizard frontman] and still play guitar.”

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Author:J. Robbins

“I always feel like the less I think of stage presence, the better, because then I have to face the fact that I have really complicated guitar parts, I'm singing almost all the time, and I have like six pedals I've got to keep on top of”

Thinking Feels Facts Faces Stage Six Singing Guitar Complicated Pedals Stage Presence

Author:J. Robbins

“You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar.”

Play Break Fingers Guitar

Author:Ester Dean

“My sister played the piano. She’s two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.”

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Author:Willie Nelson

“My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band had another blacksmith shop in Abbott, but he liked me. All he had was horns and drums, and I was set up over there with my little guitar with no amps or nothing. I would play as loud as I wanted to, and nobody could hear me.”

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Author:Willie Nelson

“It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.”

Firsts Play Wanted Choices Player Guitar Singers Guitar Player

Author:Ryan Adams

“That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.”

People Thinking Social Skills Picks Guitar Communicate Social Skills

Author:Ryan Adams

“I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I was a recording artist for a couple days.”

Kind Dream Artist Song New York Couple Lessons Guitar

Author:Kristen Wiig

“I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar.”

Guitar Going Out Porch

Author:Jemaine Clement

“It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.”

Play Song Easy Voice Guitar Cardinals

Author:Ryan Adams

“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 look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.”

Needs Looks Done Universe Leadership Strength Design Guitar Spectacular Immature

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Shut Up and Play your Guitar.”

Play Guitar Shut Up

Author:Frank Zappa

“There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".”

Said Play Pieces Advice Talent College Dad Guitar My Dad One Piece

Author:John Denver

“Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.”

Firsts Moving Song Records Guitar Producers Bass Constantly Moving

Author:Noel Gallagher

“I've always been into guitars. We want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.”

Want Looks Player Guitar Keyboards Keyboard Players

Author:Noel Gallagher

“Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.”

Ifs Asks Perfect Car Style Guitar Focused Ask Me Bells Amplifiers

Author:Buddy Guy

“When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.”

Play Girl Guitar

Author:Buddy Guy

“Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.”

Together Song Lord Share Figures My Family Guitar Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Instrumentation

Author:Daniel Smith

“I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.”

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Author:Buddy Guy

“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

“I would think that the drumstick is probably pretty good. Because you can put that anywhere. If you are a strong guy, you can put it in the throat, the nose, the mouth, the ear. It's also easily concealed. The guitar is pretty good, but you have to break it. And that's pretty difficult.”

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Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I always call myself a "student" of the guitar.”

Students Guitar

Author:Nick Offerman

“My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.”

Firsts Long Lasts Band Instruments Guitar Playing Guitar Trombone

Author:Dave Grohl

“Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.”

Made Song Practice Written Stage Guitar Made It Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Dave Grohl

“The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.”

Made My Own Records Seven Guitar Copies Solo Only Time

Author:Sasha Frere-Jones

“I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.”

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Author:Kaitlyn Dever

“If I see a chick playing guitar, I'm drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it's completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you're male. I can't help it. It's part of my nature.”

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Author:Courtney Love

“My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood. I wanted to be able to sit in a room with a guitar and play the song from beginning to end and have it be as impactful as if you heard the studio version with all the bells and whistles.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I always travel with my guitar. I take it myself - with me in my hand. I don't like to send it by cargo because it's dangerous. There is no way I would do that.”

Way Hands Dangerous Guitar Cargo

Author:Juanes

“With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.”

Suffering Deals Guitar Good Times Worthwhile Had A Good Time

Author:Paco de Lucia

“It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.”

Want Stills Certain Song Crazy Guitar Noise

Author:Elvis Costello

“If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.”

Ifs Play Instruments Guitar If I Could Electric Electric Guitar

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“As far as guitar goes, it's weird to have such a challenging activity in my life for so long - I love it. It kicks my ass every day.”

Long Challenges Activity Guitar Ass Kicks

Author:Vernon Reid

“If I ever get some free time I end up thinking about what to make next. I don't pick up a guitar and start playing the songs I already know; I immediately try to write a riff.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Trying Ends Song Next Picks Guitar Free Time

Author:Chaz Bundick

“This year's Hippiefest tour is truly a 'Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour' - a landmark, historic, musical celebration of which my band and I are proud to be a part. It's going to be a Guitar Guru Gala of Gargantuan proportions. For me personally, it will simply be the Greatest! So, see you at one of the dates on the tour. Believe me, this is not one you want to miss. All I can say is Get Ready To Rock'n'Roll!!!”

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Author:Edgar Winter

“Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.”

Ifs Firsts Kids Wanted School Dad Band Guitar Being Cool

Author:Julian Lennon

“When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.”

Writing Play Bigs Stuff Sound Ability Rocks Guitar Studios Heavy Posts Loud Aggressive Punk

Author:Tom DeLonge

“When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.”

Play Half Instruments Guitar Tunes Strings Other Half Tuning

Author:Pete Seeger

“My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the production. It's like someone else taking care of your kids - if they don't treat them well, you're going to be pissed off. I'm actually co-producing [Backwoods] with my guitar player of 20 years, Kent Wells. We make a good combination... I think we're going to have a real good record.”

“Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.”

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Author:Van Morrison

“I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues - the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.”

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Author:Keith Richards

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