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Guitar Quotes
"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice."
138
"I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument."
86
"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."
70
"For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument."
69
"As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar."
69
"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."
69
"If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy."
65
"I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed."
65
"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."
64
"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."
60
"I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it."
59
"Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school."
59
"In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures."
59
"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."
58
"As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like."
56
"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."
55
"Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own."
54
"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."
54
"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."
54
"I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange."
54
"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."
52
"Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it."
52
"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
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