Quotes about guitar
guitar trying sound
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar. Brian Eno
guitar play differences
You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music. Brian Eno
guitar way compliment
I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way. Dave Edmunds
guitar picnics tables
Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table. Dave Barry
guitar car perfect
Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles. Buddy Guy
guitar play people
A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!' Carlos Santana
guitar play towns
If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'. Carlos Santana
guitar long people
I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody. Carlos Santana
guitar goes-on playing-guitar
I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them. James Young
guitar one-day irs
I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking. Janis Ian
guitar playing-guitar
I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11. Janis Ian
guitar phrases use
I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar. Alan Price
guitar years eight
I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight. Chord Overstreet
guitar band saxophone
I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that. Chick Corea
guitar weapons shields
The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind. Brian May
guitar views way
Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect. Brian May
guitar goes-on lasts
Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh. Brian May
guitar use gadgets
I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway. Brian May
guitar achievement records
I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement. Brian May
guitar grit kind
The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else Brian May
guitar want thousand
I want a thousand guitars . . . Bruce Springsteen
guitar wells
Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk. Bruce Springsteen
guitar hook use
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. Brian Setzer
guitar guitar-playing
Guitar playing isn't really for everybody. Brad Paisley
guitar singing energy
I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot of energy into that. Jamie Campbell Bower
guitar
I'm learning on the guitar all the time. James Vincent McMorrow
guitar house steps
I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up. Bill Mumy
guitar people rawness
There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance. Chad Smith
guitar play
I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good. Billy Unger
guitar taught
I don't read music; I taught myself guitar. Beth Orton
guitar feelings melody
I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words. Beth Orton
guitar play violin
I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar. Birdy
guitar people castles
You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars. Diana Wynne Jones