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- Nov 07, 2020
Guitar Players Quotes
Musicians on the craft, feel, and roots of guitar playing.
These guitar players quotes trace the instrument's roots, from blues as the foundation of rock and roll to a player admitting they're one of the "least-technical" around and preferring a guitar that simply feels and sounds good. It's a mix of technique and instinct. For more on the creative process, see our Creativity quotes.
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- Feel Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I started realizing other guitar players couldn't do it. I always went against the grain.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
However you feel about Dimebag, this is one of the most influential metal guitar players of the '90s. I was just talking to someone that I am hiring to bring on the tour who said that, when he was at the funeral, that Eddie Van Halen came and put his striped guitar in the coffin. That's a pretty big deal.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.
- Bass
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- Nov 07, 2020
My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020