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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."
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"If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy."
27
"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."
27
"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."
24
"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."
22
"As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar."
20
"I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed."
19
"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."
18
"For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument."
18
"In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures."
18
"I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it."
17
"As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like."
16
"Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar."
16
"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."
16
"Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive."
16
"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."
16
"I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like."
16
"Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own."
15
"I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing."
15
"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."
15
"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."
15
"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."
14
"Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months."
14
"Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school."
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"I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword."
14
"Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers."
14
"Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties."
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