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“When I'm playing guitar, I just try and put those words into lyrics and just try a few things. It's all over the place.”

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Author:George Ezra

“I just think that the question of women in rock or women playing guitar, I just think it's such a non-issue, and I think that probably the sooner critics and press outlets can just erase the 'what's it like being a women in rock?' question from their vocabulary, the better off everyone will be.”

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Author:Annie E. Clark

“When I was around 7 or 8 my Dad took me to a B.B. King recording session, well, that really did it. Huge and lasting impressions. After all that I pretty much knew playing guitar was something I was going to do because I just had to do it. And I did.”

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Author:Billy Gibbons

“I kind of just want to get to know people and I have a genuine interest in people that listen to my music. I've just always felt like that. I think it's from the days of playing guitar to a few people and being very conversational and very intimate and I've always wanted to keep that vibe.”

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Author:Ellie Goulding

“I got to be about 13 and everyone started playing guitars and being in rock bands. There was no place for me with my trumpet and I wasn't cool anymore. Although now if I played the trumpet it would be the coolest thing in the world.”

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Author:Douglas Booth

“There was a lot of camaraderie among the bands. I remember a lot of times when I'd be driving up Laurel Canyon and pass by the house where Frank Zappa was living and I'd just see people out on the porch playing guitars.”

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Author:June Millington

“There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went through my Black Sabbath phase before I even started playing guitar.”

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Author:James Hetfield

“I get to do a lot of things I don't usually get to do with the boys. I love playing guitar and rocking out on stage, so I do a ton of that with my solo project. [Backstreet Boys] all give each other the freedom to do our own thing, which just makes the bond the five of us have stronger”

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Author:Nick Carter

“It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around on the floor playing guitar.”

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Author:Courtney Barnett

“I started playing guitar when I was 12, and I started getting into more metal, like Maiden and Metallica... Of course, as I kind of got better and better in the guitar, I was listening to more guitar players, so then I got into, I guess, more of the prog side.”

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Author:John Petrucci

“I watched the video [ with my first commercial] when I was 20, and in the video, there are two families. The first family is this smiling blond Partridge family, a Californian/Aryan kind of thing, all playing guitars, all singing together and harmonizing. And then, there's my family - and in my family, it starts with my mom saying that she feels like a drill sergeant sometimes, and she's yelling at one of my brothers to stop hitting another one of my brothers. It's just like, "Great, we're that family." It felt a little Simpsons versus Flanders.”

“Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many girls playing guitar.”

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Author:Lola Kirke

“For us Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is bigger than the music. It is very much an experience that brings a lot of skills and discoveries about yourself together. In that respect, it also enables you to learn that being in a band is a lot tougher than sitting around and playing guitar in your bedroom.”

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Author:Rob Halford

“Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.”

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Author:Kris Allen

“When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.”

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Author:Moby

“I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.”

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Author:Jimmy Page

“Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.”

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Author:Bonnie Raitt

“The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.”

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Author:Lou Reed

“If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.”

“Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.”

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Author:Steve Vai

“So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.”

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Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.”

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Author:Libba Bray

“And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and and playing guitar at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.”

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“If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.”

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Author:Joe Pass

“Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.”

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Author:Wes Montgomery

“I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.”

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Author:Joe Satriani

“As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You To Go") popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me. The words are about honesty and freedom inside the heart.”

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Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.”

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Author:Jackson Browne

“Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional place. You hear a song, and that memory comes right back-- you're there... Making music is immediate, and it's all about you. If you're playing guitar, the feeling comes through-- the way you bend the note, the intensity with which you hit the strings. With making films, although it's real emotion, it's false emotion. You're lying.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at.”

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Author:Johnny Winter

“I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.”

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Author:John Lee Hooker

“My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.”

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Author:David Pajo

“Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back.”

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Author:Dave Grohl

“Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.”

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Author:Taryn Manning

“So I go to the studio, and just say, 'Hi Paul, it's me, Rusty.' I think I kept it together pretty well, although I was pretty nervous. And before the day is over I'm playing guitar, and there's Paul McCartney over there, playing his Hofner bass and singing. All I can do is think, 'This life is so so bizarre.'”

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Author:Rusty Anderson

“When I usually use a theremin during a set, it feels...it feels good, because I get to take a break from playing guitar, it's a little rest, really, and I know that it's only five or ten minutes until the show ends and I can get a drink.”

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Author:Jon Spencer

“The only thing I ever really wanted was a Strat .. I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix on TV the day he died...then I got Deep Purples' Fireball album which was also a big influence .. I have a collection of more than 200 of them that includes Strats from every year since March 1954 - the first month the Strat was made”

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Author:Yngwie Malmsteen

“Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar”

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Author:Eddie Van Halen

“As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.”

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Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.”

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Author:Ian Anderson

“I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.”

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Author:Jonny Lang

“I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.”

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Author:Tom Chapin

“I started playing guitar kind of by accident.”

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Author:Ryan Cabrera

“Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.”

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Author:Trevor Rabin

“When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression.”

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Author:Robby Krieger

“Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.”

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Author:John Fogerty

“My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.”

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Author:Josh Hartnett

“Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.”

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Author:Bootsy Collins

“As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.”

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Author:Richie Sambora

“Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.”

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Author:Dweezil Zappa

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