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- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
- Dark Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I became a parent and hit my thirties, I got my hands on an acoustic guitar. I started writing quiet, simple songs at home and, with a little encouragement, I got more courage and found my voice. I have people and movements who have inspired me to carry on, but I try to write about things I know, nothing too complicated, really.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Songwriting was definitely first. I started singing, and then I was rapping; then I went back to singing. As I was growing up, I just taught myself piano and guitar.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basic idea is always constructed around piano or guitar and a voice, that's what we live and die by, because if you build up from that foundation, it's going to be strong.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.
- Technique
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no guitar technique.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on bass has played with Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell and Bruce Springsteen, and they're fantastic musicians and amazing singers they get a really cool vocal sound together.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether I am on a stage, behind a guitar or in front of a camera, I get paid to misbehave. Fortunately, misbehaviour is something I have unlimited supply of.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until I was around 12 or 13, I only listened to classical music, mostly Tchaikovsky. But around that age, I started listening to Iron Maiden, and that's when I purchased my first guitar, a pearl-white Westone.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Out of drag, I'm a white guy with a guitar, which isn't special. There are a million white guys with guitars. But being a drag queen with a guitar is a lot more commanding.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to watch my father play the guitar and sing when I was a little boy. By the time I was 11, I knew what I wanted to do. My father really couldn't afford to spend $12 for a guitar for me, but he did. It was like an ordinary family spending $500 for a kid's gift.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player friend of mine, and I sang and played the guitar on it.
- Flipped
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember a song I did called 'If the Good Die Young' - I wanted to have a lead guitar solo on there, and the label flipped out! It was too rock and roll. They made us go back and put fiddle on the solo.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, I would love to learn how to play piano and guitar.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned guitar solely for the purpose of meeting women. I'd heard it's a great lady-catcher.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bowie's 'Hunky Dory' influenced me. 'Ziggy Stardust' influenced Johnny Ramone a lot, especially his guitar parts.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.
- Electric Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!
- Mellow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never liked mellow sounding guitar.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out with acoustic guitar and loop pedal because I thought I wanted to be Ed Sheeran.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw Angus Young running around in a schoolboy uniform shredding on the guitar and just thought, 'That looks like a cool job.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventually, my dad bought me a guitar for Christmas, and then I just went from there, man. I bought a drum kit a few years later and bought a bass, started producing, started singing.
- Touch
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please.
- Gang
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can sit down at a piano or with a guitar and just chug away for hours and be perfectly content with whatever comes out. But when it comes to something that somebody else is going to listen to, then I do feel a great deal of pressure to do something that's exceptional, at least in what I consider to be at the limits of what I can do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I forget that I can play guitar and that I can perform very well. It's like having an alternative life.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't play guitar. I sing. I'm the lead singer, of Cousin Billy. I also play harmonica, after a fashion.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.
- Acoustic Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always had problems with my voice, and the piano helped me believe the song could be bigger than my voice, and I could play with new melodies and things that I couldn't on guitar. It was easier to make the sound fuller and easier to get away with not being as good.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
- Electric Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me a while to get an electric guitar and a bass and amps and stuff. Playing the acoustic guitar was much easier and more affordable. But I was always listening to the radio and was interested in all the rock and pop music.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.
- Keyboard
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing - I'll mess around with echo and other effects, just turn everything up and make it as crazy as can be, and it winds up taking me somewhere. I've found so many guitar parts from echo. It's limitless.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.
- Nov 07, 2020
I very easily could have broke Hulk Hogan leg because I was the real shooter. Hulk was the bodybuilder guitar player.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.
- Piano
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.
- Classic Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just based on the primary adage of the necessity breeding innovation, it was just like 'Well, what makes me the guitar player that I am?' and I feel like I listen to so much different music, and I'm a student of so many genres of music, and I feel like it's fun to apply those things and anything super applicable to any type of music.
- Guitar Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about me is that I'm very fortunate to have had the opportunities with Avenged Sevenfold in songwriting. I really think it's helped to bolster my guitar playing as well.
- Nov 07, 2020
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I've got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all the instruments, and I'm a little girl, in boiling-hot leather under the lights. You have to keep the fitness level up if you want to look good up there.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really into how the pickups work. And winding and de-winding Telecaster pickups. And then building Telecasters. And I became more fascinated with making them than I was with actually playing them. So it's a slippery slope.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020