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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
- 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