Best Guitar Thoughts
1528 Guitar quotes by 841 unique authors
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Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.
— Lou Reed
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Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.
— Pat Metheny
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From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles
— Pat Metheny
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I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or…
— Dave Navarro
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I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
— James Taylor
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I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.
— Squarepusher
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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…
— Abel Ferrara
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When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country…
— Eddy Arnold
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My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.
— Bob Dylan
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I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.
— Lucinda Williams
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The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to…
— Thom Yorke
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If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going…
— Kurt Cobain
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What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up…
— Kurt Cobain
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We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long…
— Kurt Cobain
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If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.
— Krist Novoselic
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In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in…
— Dr. John
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I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.
— Robin Trower
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Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy…
— Tony Visconti
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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…
— Marc Almond
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If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert
— Thomas Ian Nicholas
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But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right…
— Dweezil Zappa
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Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing…
— Taryn Manning
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In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer.…
— Glenn Tipton
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So I go to the studio, and just say, 'Hi Paul, it's me, Rusty.' I think I kept it together pretty well, although I was…
— Unknown Author
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