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Guitar Quotes
"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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"I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano."
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"I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired."
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"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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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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"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."
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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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"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."
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"I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar."
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"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"
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"I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands."
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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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"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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"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"
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"I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar."
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"We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano."
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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 didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable."
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"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
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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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"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
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"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back."
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"I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something."
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"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
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"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
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"But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere."
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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
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"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."
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"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."
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