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“During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.”

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Author:Ronnie Dunn

“So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.”

Song Lines Records Lays Guitar Patterns Pops Cycles Bass Keyboards Groove Over The Top

Author:Thomas Dolby

“I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.”

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Author:Kina Grannis

“If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.”

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Author:Kina Grannis

“My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.”

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Author:Andrew Garfield

“I just rediscovered my guitar.”

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Author:Ben Gibbard

“I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.”

Helping Records Guitar

Author:David Gilmour

“Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.”

Wells Has Beens Voice Guitar

Author:David Gilmour

“I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.”

Approach Guitar

Author:David Gilmour

“I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.”

Thinking Giving Sound Walks Couple Give Me Guitar Like Me Shops Devices Racks Pedals

Author:David Gilmour

“Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.”

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Author:Ryan Adams

“In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.”

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Author:Kevin Eubanks

“I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.”

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Author:Zac Efron

“I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.”

Wanted Guitar

Book:No Regrets

Source: No Regrets

“She was just another notch on my guitar.”

Guitar Notches

Author:Robert Cray

“She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“Take this rifle, kid. Gimme that guitar.”

Kids Guitar Rifles

Author:Bobby Bare

“Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly.”

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Author:David Bowie

“My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.”

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Author:Johnny Cash

“I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably do 30 or 40 dates a year and I get to relive how I felt at 19 when I played in some really bad bands.”

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Author:David Cassidy

“I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.”

I Can Play Together Effort Fine Guitar Thoughtful Ems

Author:Jerry Cantrell

“Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.”

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Author:Dan Fogelberg

“I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.”

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Author:Richard Fleeshman

“I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or something. It's fine if you have an interest. By talking with me, though, you could be interviewing a novelist about guitars. It's the same thing, except I don't write that well either.”

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Author:Jonny Greenwood

“I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section.”

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Author:Jonny Greenwood

“I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history.”

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Author:Chris Hadfield

“I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.”

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Author:Dhani Harrison

“The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.”

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Author:Dhani Harrison

“Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.”

Way Should Fun Guitar Solo Guitar Solos

Author:Joshua Homme

“I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.”

Thinking Strong Wonderful Guitar

Author:Mike Huckabee

“The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.”

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Author:Taylor Hanson

“The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.”

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Author:Frank Iero

“I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.”

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Author:Janis Ian

“I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.”

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Author:Janis Ian

“At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.”

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Author:Janis Ian

“I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.”

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Author:Michael Imperioli

“I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.”

Writing Kind Home Guy Song Picks Guitar Noodles

Author:Scott Ian

“To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.”

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Author:Scott Ian

“To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.”

Play Fun Tools Guitar Songwriting

Author:Scott Ian

“I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.”

Thinking Guitar Range Expressive

Author:Gary Clark, Jr.

“Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.”

Song Guitar Driven Aggressive

Author:Gary Clark, Jr.

“You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.”

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Author:Gary Clark, Jr.

“I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.”

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Author:Gary Clark, Jr.

“My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.”

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Author:Gary Clark, Jr.

“When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.”

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Author:Gary Clark, Jr.

“Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.”

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Author:Etta James

“I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.”

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Author:Jam Master Jay

“I was a drummer and I played the guitar.”

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Author:Jam Master Jay

“The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.”

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Author:Kelly Jones

“Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.”

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Author:Ben E. King

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