- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I was first losing my ability to play my fast licks and my hands were shaking and falling off the guitar. It forced me to sort of create a new slow style.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not being able to play makes one be able to listen and receive better. The constant noodling on guitar can be great, but also distracting to the universal music inside you.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't miss playing guitar anymore. I'm sure that's out of necessity, but I am grateful for so much more. I am surrounded by loving people, and I can still make music.
- Focused
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guitar Player' was always the serious musician's magazine. They rarely catered to what was popular. They focused on innovative players.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was my first influence. He played classical guitar and my uncle Ron played the blues.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advice I like to give to drummers is that there's no right or wrong way of playing the drums. I think the drumming community can be very antiquated and very stuck in the past of, like, this Neil Peart style, technical Guitar Center drum video kind of approach. That you need to have played for 15 years before you ever do anything worthwhile.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel some allegiance to pushing electric-guitar music into a different realm, somewhere that isn't retrospective. There's a lot of guitar bands that are a tribute to the 1970s or the Nineties. I want to experiment with guitar music more.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I asked for a guitar when I was 8 years old for Christmas. I have no idea why. I never had any guitar heroes. I still don't. But there must have been something in me because I've been playing for 30 years.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing with One Direction songs is that you can probably break them all down to an acoustic guitar and vocal.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020