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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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I probably spent more time as a kid playing air guitar to Jimmy Page than any other guitar player.
- Passion
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Music and guitar are my favorite things, so it's fun to get together with other people who share the passion and talk about the details.
- Great
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Everyone has to start somewhere! I certainly didn't sound great when I first started playing, and I remember all my guitar teachers, both good and bad, and what it felt like to struggle with even the simplest of things.
- Influence
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Tony MacAlpine not only plays guitar, but is a stunning classical piano player, so he can show how that influence molded his guitar playing.
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I went from wanting to be a Beatle to becoming a ‘widdly-widdly' guitar player.
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Before I even became a guitar player, I wanted to be a Beatle. That was my first dream as a musician, was to be like a Beatle.
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That's the nice thing about being in Mr. Big, is I'm not only the guitar player. I'm the background singer, and so I get to do both of those things. Sometimes we even switch instruments and I get to be the drummer.
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I love all my guitar solos.
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I was doing a lot of teaching on my online guitar school and I started to use vocal melodies as a way of teaching my students. To be able to do that, I had to learn them myself.
- Boring
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Yeah, my very first teacher when I was 6 was a big influence, because it was so boring that I quit guitar.
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Mostly, I'm much more of a guitar player than I am a singer.
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