Best Guitar Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 6

“All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.”

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Author:Martin Gore

“I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.”

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Author:Martin Gore

“A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.”

Kids Rocks Guitar Rock N Roll

Author:Johnny Ramone

“I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.”

I Can Enough Play Guitar Tunes

Author:Cameron Monaghan

“I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.”

Art Play Guitar Martial Arts Friday Acrobatics

Author:Cameron Monaghan

“I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking.”

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Author:Jordan Gavaris

“I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.”

Wanted Guitar

Author:Stone Gossard

“Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.”

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Author:Pete Townshend

“There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement.”

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Author:Jimmy Page

“I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.”

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Author:Ellie Goulding

“I've learned not to let it be the end of the world if a boy doesn't like you. I used to put so much effort into boys. I started playing guitar because I wanted to impress this boy. Then, I ended up in love with guitar and I didn't care about the boy anymore.”

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Author:Ellie Goulding

“You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.”

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Author:Ellie Goulding

“I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I also wanted to play guitar. I mentioned to my parents that I wanted an electric guitar for Christmas. They got me one! I sat there all Christmas morning making a lot of loud horrible noise.”

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Author:Joan Jett

“I wrote 90 percent of the record in prison. A lot of people wonder, "How the hell did you do that?" I just pretty much played drums on my legs with my hands and while I did that, I would hum the guitar parts and sing the melodies of the songs.”

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Author:Ronnie Radke

“Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric.”

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Author:Jon Foreman

“Back when I was in high school, I came out onstage with my guitar and had four guys playing behind me. We were just playing a dance, but I was standing in front of an audience rocking out. I'm still rocking out like when I was a kid. I haven't changed.”

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Author:Dion DiMucci

“The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.”

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Author:Jack White

“My guitar and singing was my way of crying.”

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Author:Gloria Estefan

“we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.”

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Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?”

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Author:Les Paul

“The Hamsters really kick ass - Slim is one of your greatest guitar players”

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Author:Walter Trout

“A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar and play the chords," just because it's such a lame image. It's not rock'n'roll at all to be sitting behind a guitar.”

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Author:Tim Heidecker

“I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player.”

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Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.”

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Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“I'm just as comfortable performing solo with just my acoustic guitar and vocal as I am with a band. The main thing for me is that the performance remain rooted in the words and voice, that there be no place to hide.”

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Author:Michael Gira

“I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.”

Way Wanted Guitar Vehicle

Author:Jimmy Page

“There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, phenomenal drummer, young man with his technique, but do you think he would ever have the opportunity to play like that in another band? Of course he hadn't.”

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Author:Jimmy Page

“I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play very aggressively. I always have a distortion pedal in line, and I play less melodies and do more stuff against the guitars that create melodies.”

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Author:Nikki Sixx

“The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.”

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Author:Jimmy Page

“There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it's all about.”

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Author:Jimmy Page

“The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.”

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Author:Jimmy Page

“From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.”

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Author:Jimmy Page

“There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.”

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Author:Jimmy Page

“I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.”

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Author:Anthony Bourdain

“In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant class. But the funny thing was, there were literally thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who loved old time fiddling, ballads, banjo tunes, blues played on the guitar, spirituals and gospel hymns. These songs and music didn't fit into any neat category of art music nor popular music nor jazz. So gradually they said well let's call it folk music.”

“Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.”

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Author:Pete Seeger

“Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.”

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Author:Mick Jagger

“Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.”

People Men Kind Kids School Yeah Guitar Songwriters

Author:Alex Turner

“I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.”

Way Magic Guitar Communicate My Way Touched

Author:Juanes

“Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish. But sometimes I use some words in English. I don't know why. Maybe because I listen to a lot of music in English.”

Knows Writing Sometimes Use Guitar Melody

Author:Juanes

“I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.”

Feels Kind Play Natural Taught Guitar Fake Feel Better Drumming

Author:Dave Grohl

“Return to the beginning. Enter by form. Clean your dojo. As you have every day, tie on the white belt and empty your cup. Pick up your guitar, tune, then play.”

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Book:Zen Guitar

Source: Zen Guitar

“I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.”

Want Play Guitar

Author:Eddie Murphy

“I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.”

Ifs Today Alive Guitar Classic Solo Youtube Live For Today Guitar Solos

Author:Peter Capaldi

“When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.”

Song Voice Clothes Guitar

Author:Kevin Bacon

“Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can't take your eyes off the man when he's on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar.”

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Author:Ne-Yo

“It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve Allen Show that got me into rock music.”

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Author:Elton John

“The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.”

People Moving Culture Can Do Rocks Pages Guitar Pops Jimmy

Author:Johnny Marr

“Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.”

Firsts Has Beens Age Four Guitar Obsession Junkie

Author:Johnny Marr

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