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Source: Lennon Remembers

“The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.”

Inspirational Wells Play Music Musician Instruments Guitar Hardest

“My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.”

I Can Play Able Instruments Guitar Chosen Muddle

Author:Joe Perry

“The thing about guitar players is we're all like a brotherhood or sisterhood. We don't care if you're great, good, bad, in between or whatever. As long as you love it, then we're all going to help each other.”

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Author:Tommy Emmanuel

“If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.”

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Author:Pete Seeger

“Bob Dylan is great. Ive been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a guitar they just think, Bob Dylan!”

People Thinking Persons Stage Guitar Bob Dylan

Author:Jake Bugg

“My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.”

Play Rooms Hero Clean Guitar Guitar Hero

Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.”

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Author:Tom Curren

“I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.”

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Author:Elle Varner

“I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.”

Play Mistake Taught Guitar Making Mistakes

Author:Richie Sambora

“I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds.”

Want Sound Guitar Electric

Author:Ross Lynch

“I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.”

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Author:Imogen Heap

“Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that, and that's what it was all about.”

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Author:David Byrne

“I was very pleased when PRS presented me with my SE Angelus acoustic, a beautiful guitar of stunning quality. It was in response to the challenge of building a guitar that shared the integrity and attention to detail that the Alex Lifeson Private Stock Angelus possesses in a package more broadly accessible. The SE Alex Lifeson Thinline is that model. Carefully selected materials, expert craftsmanship and a smart approach to concept resulted in a guitar that is beautiful to look at and rewarding to play.”

“I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.”

Play College Guitar

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“I'm learning on the guitar all the time.”

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Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“There's people that say “It's not fair You have all that stuff.” I wasn't born with it. It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you're new at this- and by “new at it.” I mean 15 years in, or even 20- you're just starting to grow traction. Young musicians believe they should be able to throw a band together and be famous, and anything that's in their way is unfair and evil. What are you, in your 20s, you picked up a guitar? Give it a minute.”

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Author:Louis C. K.

“When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.”

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Author:Burton Cummings

“Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.”

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Author:Donald Dunn

“I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.”

Knows Shows Able Guitar Chords Session Jam

Author:Jake Shimabukuro

“As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.”

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Author:Donald Fagen

“My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.”

Guitar Cords Metallica Umbilical Cord

Author:Kirk Hammett

“Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.”

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Author:Kirk Hammett

“I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.”

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Author:Kirk Hammett

“Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.”

Easy Difficult Guitar Guitar Playing

Author:Kirk Hammett

“If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.”

Ifs Play Easy Battle Guitar Laid Back

Author:Kirk Hammett

“It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.”

Fans Response Guitar Solo Shocked Guitar Solos

Author:Kirk Hammett

“Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.”

Firsts Has Beens Hero Guitar My Hero

Author:Kirk Hammett

“I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.”

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Author:Kirk Hammett

“After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'”

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Author:Kirk Hammett

“Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why. The one we used had a nice clean, warm sound, and it blended well with the other amps that were in the studio.”

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Author:Kirk Hammett

“When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing a big powerful sound. I mean, no one ever forgets their first Marshall amp.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Bigs Sound Forget Powerful Player Guitar Empowering Guitar Player

Author:Kirk Hammett

“I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.”

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Author:B. B. King

“For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.”

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Author:Jerry Garcia

“Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot of outdoor-type poets, who would recite their poetry. When you don't have a guitar, you recite things differently, and there used to be quite a few poets in the jazz clubs, who would recite with a different type of attitude.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy!”

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Author:John Fogerty

“I was deluding myself that the song was almost not important, but I think the real thing that was happening was almost like self-hypnosis or mediation. The guitar lick was the transcendental key that unlocked my brain. It freed me. And then it all became easy. It's funny now, because I've had times when it wasn't easy.”

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Author:John Fogerty

“Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great guitar player by any means. I'm not a great instrumentalist. I play piano on stage. I don't play guitar on stage, but I use it to write quite a lot.”

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Author:Zooey Deschanel

“But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.”

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Author:Colin Hanks

“I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.”

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Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.”

Guitar Loud Snares

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.”

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Author:Pinetop Perkins

“I remember people would talk about Country Music like it was this sexist, lame thing. Well, no, because Dolly Parton is writing songs and playing her guitar and producing. She's doing it all and she's got hits on the radio.”

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Author:Neko Case

“Im a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him.”

Knows Bigs Fans Huge Listening Guitar Gang

Author:Tom Scholz

“I know what love feels like. That is one thing I have found. That is one thing that is much clearer because of fibromyalgia. Because once you experience real pain you recognize the vibration, the feeling of being healthy, happy and loved. If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick. I need to do things that feed my soul, like being with people I love, or playing my guitar, or listening to music.”

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Author:A. J. Langer

“Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away, Somethin' throwed away. And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day.”

Feels Sometimes Play Guitar

Author:William Christopher Handy

“You watch the country-music awards that they show on the television, and you see country music has reached about 1985. It's all huge processed drum sounds and chiming chorus guitars and programmed synths bobbling along in the background.”

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Author:Andy Partridge

“Going onstage without my primary instrument is like being a guitarist and going up onstage with no guitar waiting for you. What do you do? That's why performance is painful for me, because I feel like I am always in a strange place with a bit of a handicap.”

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Author:Son Lux

“It's annoying when you've got a guitar and you're working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping or someone calls your mobile and you get distracted or you have to go out and do something. So it's nice to just concentrate on it one hundred percent and give your all to it.”

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Author:Michael Kiwanuka

“You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock band. So I, in a very naïve and teenage way, said, "That's it. I'm going to be in a band."”

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Author:Michael Stipe

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