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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
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the language of, you know, the old black country man with a blues guitar and... boots and the quick banter.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always good at video games like 'Guitar Hero,' which require the player to press buttons at precise times.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them.
- Better Ways
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?'
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about three hours on it desperate to be brilliant. Eventually, I got some proper lessons.
- Bedroom
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.
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- Nov 07, 2020