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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
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people can do what I do - they can do guitar solos - but they can't do a good, hard rhythm guitar and be dedicated to it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to run home from school, pick up my guitar, and lock myself in my room and play.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
With guitar riffs, we always look for something that 's a little bit special. We've always found that it is harder to come up with something that's nice and simple without getting something that's hard but easy.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Watching David write was inspiring to me. He was at his most content composing. Music floated from his mind and fingertips. He would strum the 11 strings on his 12-string Harptone guitar and wander to the piano and play a few bars, then off to forage for rice pudding in the kitchen.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
- Nov 07, 2020
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
- Nov 07, 2020
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
- Nov 07, 2020
What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.
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- Nov 07, 2020