Best Guitar Wisdom
1528 Guitar quotes by 841 unique authors
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I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I…
— Billy Bragg
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When I usually use a theremin during a set, it feels...it feels good, because I get to take a break from playing guitar, it's a…
— Jon Spencer
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Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its…
— Jonny Greenwood
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The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as…
— Arto Lindsay
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I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums…
— John Bonham
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Buckethead [former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist] is probably twice as good a guitar player as me and Slash combined, and can stand having fried chicken…
— Dave Mustaine
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Mogami cable is durable and flexible enough to practically build a suspension bridge with but I'll settle for using it for my guitars and amps!
— Dave Mustaine
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We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was…
— Rob Halford
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That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together -…
— Tom Araya
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When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just…
— Les Paul
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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…
— Brian Setzer
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It's really funny, I think to myself... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things don't change.
— Brian Setzer
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My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.
— Brian Setzer
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I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along,…
— Doc Watson
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I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people
— Doc Watson
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I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work…
— Jack White
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You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're…
— Jack White
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
— Jimmy Page
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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing…
— Jimmy Page
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way.…
— Jimmy Page
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.
— Jimmy Page
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Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained…
— Unknown Author
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Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound…
— Thom Yorke
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Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it’s more difficult.
— Dave Mustaine
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'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.
— Pete Doherty
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