Quotes and Sayings About Guitar
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I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
-- Abel Ferrara -
I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
-- Ace Frehley -
I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
-- Ace FrehleySource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
-- Ace Frehley -
I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
-- Ace FrehleySource : "KISS's Ace Frehley Tells All (Or Some?) in Advance of Upcoming Memoir". Interview with Jaan Uhelszki, www.themortonreport.com. August 05, 2011.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
-- Ace Frehley -
I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
-- Ace FrehleySource : Ace Frehley (2011). “No Regrets”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
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It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.
-- Adam Ant -
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
-- Adam Jones -
The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.
-- Adam Parfrey -
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I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.
-- Adrian Belew -
I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
-- Adrian Belew -
I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.
-- Adrian Belew -
Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.
-- Adrian Belew -
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For my 20th birthday in March, I'll buy myself a present for doing my best. A one way ticket to Tokyo. All I need is my guitar and a pack of cigarettes.
-- Ai Yazawa -
I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
-- Alan ArkinSource : "Ronnie". Book by Ronnie Drew, September 3, 2009.
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George had taken off all ten of his fingers and tied them into a bundle with what appeared to be either his own small intestines, or a guitar string; as I walked into the room, he lovingly placed the bundle on his head.
-- Alan GoldsherSource : Alan Goldsher (2010). “Paul Is Undead”, p.199, Simon and Schuster
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What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.
-- Alan Licht -
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The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.
-- Alan Price -
I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.
-- Alan Price -
I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as was I ... these were the rock and roll guys who really sparked our interest in the guitar, and later we delved into other things and went different directions ... during my time with Eric Clapton, we talked about what we'd listened to early on, and he was a huge fan of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis
-- Albert Lee -
I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.
-- Alex LifesonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can.
-- Alexa Chung -
My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.
-- Alexander Ludwig -
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I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.
-- Alexis Korner -
I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
-- Alvin Lee