- 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
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
- Nov 07, 2020
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
- Composers
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.
- Chord
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- Nov 07, 2020
You just have to have a song that you're desperate to play along to, and for me it was 'Turn' by the Scottish band Travis. I went to see them headline the Scottish T in the Park Festival, so after that festival, I went home and taught myself all of the Travis back catalog with an old guitar and a little chord book.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote the first album I had never played live before, and I'd never been on tour. So that was really just me and my guitar.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always looked up to Slash from Guns N' Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the guitar, just going crazy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin, I started in elementary school. Drums actually came when I was in a program called 'Rock Star,' which was really awesome. We were doing a song by the Ramones, so I thought, 'Why not play the drums?'
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020