- 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
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
- Electric Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me a while to get an electric guitar and a bass and amps and stuff. Playing the acoustic guitar was much easier and more affordable. But I was always listening to the radio and was interested in all the rock and pop music.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.
- Keyboard
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing - I'll mess around with echo and other effects, just turn everything up and make it as crazy as can be, and it winds up taking me somewhere. I've found so many guitar parts from echo. It's limitless.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.
- Nov 07, 2020
I very easily could have broke Hulk Hogan leg because I was the real shooter. Hulk was the bodybuilder guitar player.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.
- Piano
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.
- Classic Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020