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Guitar Quotes
"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice."
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"I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument."
70
"For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument."
59
"If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs."
56
"I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way."
54
"It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before."
53
"I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed."
53
"As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar."
51
"Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school."
50
"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."
49
"If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy."
47
"I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it."
46
"As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like."
45
"So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others."
45
"In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures."
45
"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."
44
"It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it."
43
"I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around."
42
"I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt."
41
"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."
41
"I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players."
40
"I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like."
40
"Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own."
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