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Guitar Quotes
"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."
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"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."
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"It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different."
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"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."
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"Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties."
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"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."
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"Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own."
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"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."
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"To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do."
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"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."
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"More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp."
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"I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living."
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"Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke."
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"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."
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"I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar."
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"I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it."
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"Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year."
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"For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar."
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"I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits."
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"A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts."
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"I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord."
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"I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments."
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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
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"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."
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"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar."
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