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- Nov 07, 2020
Guitar Quotes
How guitarists actually describe their own instrument.
These guitar quotes come straight from musicians, one describing a piano-or-guitar foundation as the backbone of an entire career, another comparing how guitar cuts through a mix differently than organ. For the emotional side of playing, see Passion quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a guitar player first. So my first hero was Angus Young from AC/DC. I used to copy every move that he did, play every lick that he would. I knew I wanted to be some kind of a rocker, back in the day.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
My form of rebellion was starting to play guitar. I was 13. The first song I played was 'Lovesick Blues' by Hank Williams.
- Nov 07, 2020
I’m not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.
- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look upon meself as... You take a band that's made up of arms, legs, bodies... I happen to be the piece that talks. And does all that area of it, you know? I'm also very easy to recognize; the darkie in the middle jumping around with the guitar, you know. Dat boy's got rhydm!!!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2002 I did a big tour of Europe, by train, by myself, on foot, all the time walking from train station to the venue, in a weird town, in a weird country. I'd brought an acoustic guitar with me but it got broken somehow in transit.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'
- Nov 07, 2020
It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I understood guitar rock as well as I probably should have. I don't think I understood bands like Led Zeppelin. In their era, everyone had such a regard for them because of them ushering in rock n' roll and this larger-than-life lifestyle. But then they had these songs that would just not stop. I didn't fully get it.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble', I would have never picked up a guitar.
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- Nov 07, 2020