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Guitar Quotes
"Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties."
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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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"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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"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar."
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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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"I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits."
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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 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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"I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke."
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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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"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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"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"
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"A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs."
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"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
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"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."
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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 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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"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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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
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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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"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 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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"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
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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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