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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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- Nov 07, 2020
It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first guitar I ever owned was a Kay SG copy. That cost like $35. Man, that was a terrible guitar.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was always a guitar hanging around the house when I was a kid. It was a much lower impact instrument than me playing the drums, which is what I really wanted to do. My mother put a stop to the drumming.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Punk was key to the early part of me playing guitar. I was really into melodic punk-rock. I related to punk more than Lynyrd Skynyrd or Yes or Van Halen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.
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Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make money playing guitar.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inspiration is a really hard thing to describe, but it's something that triggers your brain, like the first time I heard a certain guitar player that I loved or the first time that I saw a monster or the first time that I saw anything that really was an epiphany for me. It just stays with you your whole life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always happy with a guitar in my hand.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always playing guitar.
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- Nov 07, 2020