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“I wanted to get a guitar [when I was 13] so I could play punk songs because kid taught me power chords at summer camp. He was like, "You could play all punk songs if you just learn this chord and just move it around on the guitar".”

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Author:Ezra Furman

“Playing guitar is like telling the truth.”

Guitar Telling The Truth Playing Guitar

Author:B. B. King

“I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.”

Firsts Play Young Song Guitar Starting

Author:Jesse Harris

“If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson”

Ifs Play Sound Wind Rain Guitar Watson Wind And Rain

Author:Greg Brown

“Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they are all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist.”

Ifs Wells Play Interesting Stage Listening Method Notes Guitar Average Helpful Copies Solo Guitarist Saxophone Guitar Solos

Author:Ritchie Blackmore

“As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.”

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Author:James Bay

“I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.”

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Author:James Bay

“I've learned to take care of myself. You know, I try to stay conscious of whatever my energy is at all times, really. I mean, I come home from work, and, depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate, or play guitar, or watch some Monty Python.”

Ifs Knows Trying Mean Play Home Care Energy Watches Needed Conscious Guitar Take Care All Time I've Learned Coming Home Python Monty

Author:Brent Sexton

“Suffice to say that the TG2, Germ pre and EQ, and TG1 are there anytime I track drums, TG2 for guitars and the LTD-1 is there whenever I do vocals!”

Guitar Track Vocal Germs

Author:Billy Bush

“Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.”

People Kind Has Beens Successful Hero Guitar Questioning Guitar Hero

Author:Dan Rosensweig

“A new study found that women think men holding a guitar are more attractive, even if they are not playing it. In a related story, guys with an accordion will die alone.”

Ifs Thinking Men Stories Guy Dies Found Study Guitar Attractive Related Accordions

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.”

Ifs Sound Lovers Band Guitar Punk Music Lover

Author:Benjamin Booker

“My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half.”

Half Wife Guitar My Wife Other Half

Author:Huddie William Ledbetter

“Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, 'Listen to the Ramones.'”

World Said Two School Break College Grew Grew Up Guitar Punk Bass Punk Rock Two Worlds Jocks Rockers Ramones

Author:Jeff Ament

“For an electric guitarist to solo effectively on an acoustic guitar you need to develop tricks to avoid the expectation of sustain that comes from playing electrics. Try cascades, for example. Drop arpeggios over open strings, and let the open strings sing as you pick with your fingers. It's kind of a country style of playing, but it works very well in-between heavily strummed parts and fingered lead lines.”

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Author:Pete Townshend

“Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.”

Littles Play Keys Guitar Bass Bass Guitar

Author:Mayer Hawthorne

“In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.”

Way Feels Wells Stills Certain Comfortable Findings Singing Sitting Guitar My Way Acoustics Groove Reggae Acoustic Guitar

Author:Colin Hay

“Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.”

People Knows Left Music Player Stones Guitar Lists Magazines All Time Rolling Guitarist Guitar Player Rolling Stones

Author:Joe Satriani

“Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.”

Humans Half Music Rich Sweet Trump Guitar Horns Flutes Pining Cymbals

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“I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands.”

Long I Can Hands Energy Audience Guitar Burning Fuel Get Back Feeding Impetus

Author:Keith Richards

“What interested me about Chuck Berry was the way he could step out of the rhythm part with such ease, throwing in a nice, simple riff, and then drop straight into the feel of it again. We used to play a lot more rhythm stuff. We'd do away with the differences between lead and rhythm guitar. You can't go into a shop and ask for a "lead guitar". You're a guitar player, and you play a guitar.”

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Author:Keith Richards

“I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.”

Player Theory Built Instruments Guitar Guitar Player

Author:Hunter Hayes

“A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.”

Thinking Way Play Player Guitar Bass Drummer Guitar Player Vocalist Bass Players Bass Guitar Playing Bass

Author:Hunter Hayes

“I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.”

Trying Guitar Piano

Author:Tori Amos

“Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.' He gave me a guitar for my sixth birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.”

World Saws Guitar Extras Restaurants Invited Apostles Louisiana

Author:Hunter Hayes

“But the day that I die will be the day that I shut my mouth and put down my guitar.”

Dies Mouths Guitar

Author:Bradley Nowell

“I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.”

Trying Audience Too Much Guitar Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Kaki King

“I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.”

Thinking Littles Bits Practice Talent Little Bit Guitar Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Tim Hudson

“I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.”

Littles Sound Guitar Somber Guitar Sound

Author:Joe Trohman

“I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the side hairdos are not metal no matter what distortion pedal they have for their guitars.”

I Can Matter Names Sides Band Members No Matter What Guitar Sentences Metals Distortion Pedals Hairdos

Author:Chris Reifert

“The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.”

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Author:Hank Williams III

“Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot closer to factory work than art, whatever level you're doing it at. Certainly chefs are used to living like rock 'n' rollers to some extent, inasmuch as we get a lot of those fringe benefits without having to learn how to play guitar.”

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Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.”

People Play Wanted Approach Guitar Performing Performing Live

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“I really wanted to get that dynamic on the record onto people and let them know it wasn't just a simple strumming along the guitar type of thing without ramming it down their throats so I kind of went the opposite way and sang some of the songs more quietly which allowed for the louder parts to sound as though there were more. It was the only way singing those songs made sense to me.”

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Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in my family. My grandma was a professional violin player and my parents first met when my dad was giving my mom guitar lessons.”

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Author:Eric Hutchinson

“I was trained at classical piano as a youngster back in PA. To rebel, I bought a drum set and played in some rock & roll bands. In college I picked up a guitar and became obsessed with practicing which led to playing guitar in indie rock bands in the mid 90's. Which led me to Los Angeles.”

Rocks College Band Guitar Piano Obsessed Los Angeles Rebel Youngsters Rock Bands Playing Guitar Indie Rock

Author:Jeff Cardoni

“I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.”

Years Wanted Born Died Guitar Nine Broke Lennon Broke Up Playing Guitar

Author:Tig Notaro

“As soon as I say I'm from Texas people say, "Oh, I'm sure the school was horrible" and they picture me wearing some barrel and suspenders and people are bucktoothed and ignoring me. But that's not the case. I just had zero interest. I wanted to finish my research in the woods or play guitar or go have a cigarette.”

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Author:Tig Notaro

“I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were born into. And so I wanted to be a veterinarian or an architect. I wanted to be in a band, and for some reason I could understand how you could be in a band because I had guitars and all my friends played music. Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.”

People Want Kind Reason Wanted Born Secret Comedy Band My Friends Guitar Comedian Architect Pursued Veterinarian

Author:Tig Notaro

“I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.”

Player Guitar Slides

Author:George Thorogood

“Being a professional wrestler was never one of my goals in life. I always wanted to be some kind of entertainer. I used to want to be a rock singer or a guitar player but I can't sing and I can't play the guitar.”

Want Kind I Can Play Wanted Used Goal Player Rocks Guitar Singers Entertainers Life Goal Guitar Player Wrestler

Author:Ric Savage

“Always continue to perform no matter what or where the activity is: local theater, regional theater, local clubs or coffee shops. Continue to play the guitar or your instrument and always continue to progress or otherwise you will fail.”

Matter Play Progress Failing Activity Theater No Matter What Instruments Guitar Clubs Coffee Locals Shops Coffee Shop

Author:Tony Vincent

“The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.”

Believe I Believe Fire Guitar Pens Fountain Musings Fountain Pens

Author:Shelby Lynne

“If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.”

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Author:Will Sheff

“Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.”

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Author:Trace Adkins

“I'm just very sort of compulsive and lack the ability to keep things in perspective. If I'm not writing or playing guitar or on the microphone or out on the road, I'm cleaning pots and pans or freaking out about some plumbing issue or tweeting.”

Ifs Writing Ability Issues Perspective Guitar Pot Cleaning Microphones Playing Guitar Plumbing Freaking Out Pots And Pans

Author:Marc Maron

“When I was a young comic in New York and I wasn't getting any work, I was wandering around the Lower East Side with my notebook. I would stop at the guitar place on St. Mark's and talk to that dude for a while, then I'd go to the bookstore and talk to that dude for a little while. I had a guy over at the record store, and I'd talk to him for a while. It kept me connected to life.”

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Author:Marc Maron

“I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.”

Thinking Knows Stills Ideas Beautiful Chance Know How Scene Approach Guitar Phrases Solo Guitar Solos

Author:Johnny Depp

“Playing guitar as a young teen, I didn't really have the little light bulb in my head that said you're committed until when I was about 16. By the time I was 16, I was like, I'm guna do this. I don't care what happens. I'd play whatever other instruments fell into my hands along way.”

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Author:Steve Kimock

“My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman.”

Artist Parent Grew Mom Grew Up Musician Seven Guitar My Mom Bonfire Talented Musicians

Author:Amber Tamblyn

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