- Because
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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
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw Angus Young running around in a schoolboy uniform shredding on the guitar and just thought, 'That looks like a cool job.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventually, my dad bought me a guitar for Christmas, and then I just went from there, man. I bought a drum kit a few years later and bought a bass, started producing, started singing.
- Touch
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please.
- Gang
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can sit down at a piano or with a guitar and just chug away for hours and be perfectly content with whatever comes out. But when it comes to something that somebody else is going to listen to, then I do feel a great deal of pressure to do something that's exceptional, at least in what I consider to be at the limits of what I can do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I forget that I can play guitar and that I can perform very well. It's like having an alternative life.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't play guitar. I sing. I'm the lead singer, of Cousin Billy. I also play harmonica, after a fashion.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.
- Acoustic Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020