- Me
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- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of a Sears, Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay.
- Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff.
- Bottles
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't have much money when I was younger, so I had to collect Coke bottles and cash them in and get a paper route to afford a guitar. That guitar from Sears came with a case and an amp and everything all in one. It was really cool.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020