Best Guitar Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 43

“I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?”

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Author:Anne Hathaway

“I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.”

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Author:M. Ward

“I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.”

Creativity Guitar Very Good Miserable Good Times

Author:Glen Hansard

“I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.”

Play Might Picks Guitar Satisfied Pens Edits

Author:Glen Hansard

“I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can.”

Feels Trying I Can Play Bits Guitar Violin

Author:Alexa Chung

“I'm a struggling guitar player.”

Struggle Player Guitar Guitar Player

Author:Megyn Kelly

“At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.”

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Author:James Iha

“It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.”

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Author:James Iha

“My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.”

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Author:Jack Antonoff

“I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.”

Able Left Sound Guitar Urges Guitar Sound

Author:Adrian Belew

“Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.”

Knows Kind Guitar Sexy Vintage

Author:Andrew Bird

“I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.”

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Author:Elizabeth Banks

“I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.”

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Author:George Benson

“Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.”

Stuff Simple Fronts Band Guitar Organs Gigs Tonks

Author:George Benson

“I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.”

Thinking Way Firsts Guitar Better Ways

Author:James Blunt

“I just want to be a guy with a guitar.”

Want Guy Guitar

Author:Jeff Buckley

“In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.”

Years Lasts Couple Guitar

Author:Peabo Bryson

“I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.”

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Author:Saffron Burrows

“I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements.”

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Author:Steve Burns

“When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.”

Ideas Play Brother Picks Guitar No Idea My Brother Pounds Bass Bass Guitar

Author:Steve Burns

“It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.”

Strong Pleasure Guitar Melody Vocal

Author:Wes Borland

“I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.”

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Author:Wes Borland

“I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.”

People Way Certain Player Theory Unique Guitar Guitar Player Schooled Music Theory

Author:Wes Borland

“I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.”

Play Growing Up Growing Brother Band Guitar My Brother

Author:Darren Criss

“When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.”

Kids Wanted Periods All Things Guitar Piano Playing Piano

Author:Katie Cassidy

“My brother was very important to me. And he played guitar. So that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a guitar player. So he was the first one to inspire me to do something with my life. And I was so glad that he was there.”

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Author:Bootsy Collins

“So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.”

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Author:Catie Curtis

“Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.”

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Author:Colbie Caillat

“Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.”

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Author:Colbie Caillat

“I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.”

Lasts Song Player Guitar Singers Guitar Player

Author:Dan Auerbach

“My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.”

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Author:Dan Auerbach

“Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.”

Years Kids Band Guitar Electric Electric Guitar

Author:Dan Auerbach

“I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.”

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Author:Dan Auerbach

“I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.”

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Author:Dan Auerbach

“If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.”

Ifs Wells Play Might Workers Guitar Construction Nashville Construction Workers

Author:Patrick Carney

“I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.”

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Author:Eugene Chadbourne

“I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.”

Ifs Choices Picks Guitar Piano Now And Then

Author:Julian Cope

“Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.”

Important Hero Guitar Singers Songwriters Units Guitar Hero

Author:Vivian Campbell

“I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.”

Guitar Worn

Author:Vivian Campbell

“My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.”

Young Dad Guitar My Dad

Author:Arthur Darvill

“I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.”

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Author:Arthur Darvill

“We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar guy, the tour manager and a writer. We laugh ourselves silly. Apparently we're going to have a road dog, a miniature pincher. It's the smallest they've ever seen. How masculine am I going to look, working with dolls and a miniature dog?”

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Author:Jeff Dunham

“I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.”

Firsts Player Guitar Guitar Player Unorthodox

Author:Lee DeWyze

“A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.”

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Author:Charlie Daniels

“In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.”

Guitar Solo Guitar Solos

Author:Chris Daughtry

“When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.”

Writing Enough Able Wanted Song Guitar

Author:Chris Daughtry

“To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.”

Sound Conscious Guitar Track Studios Rhythm

Author:Dimebag Darrell

“As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.”

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Author:Jonathan Demme

“When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.”

Kind Hate Names Rocks Band Guitar Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Kim Deal

“I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.”

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Author:Micky Dolenz

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