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  • For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.

  • Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

  • Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.

  • So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

    Brother   Guitar   Trying  
  • Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.

    Simple   Guitar   Careers  
    Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.37, Random House
  • As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down.

    Guitar   Style   Jazz  
    "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.
  • My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

    Father   Player   Guitar  
  • I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

  • Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

    Guitar   Names   Envious  
  • I was pillaging a lot of music that had nothing to do with guitar playing, using a lot of strange tunings and voicings and chord structures that aren't really that natural to the guitar; I ended up developing a harmonic palette that's not particularly natural to the guitar because I was always trying to make my guitar sound like something else.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.

    Girl   Song   Guitar  
  • Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

    "Biography: Jimmy Page". www.thecinemaholic.com. April 04, 2018.
  • Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.

    Strong   Cutting   Guitar  
    Source: collider.com
  • My guitar playing has not developed as much as I think it could because I never practice. I only play when I'm writing or recording or when I'm playing on tour. When I'm sitting around at home, I never play.

    Home   Writing   Thinking  
  • When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

  • I'm glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn't that difficult to do. I didn't take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.

    Voice   Guitar   Lessons  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I did all my guitar playing at my house. And then finally, I was throwing hay and stuff working in Stockton and somebody offered - somehow they had heard me singing at the house and said: Hey, I'll hire you for our fraternity party or sorority party. And I said: Well, are they going to pay me? And he said: Yeah, we'll pay you 50 bucks.

    Party   Guitar   House  
    "Chris Isaak Pays Tribute To Sun Studio's Golden Years". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 27, 2011.
  • 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 being different in some way. That was a real education for me.

  • Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

  • My dad brings a deep-seated knowledge of the British folk genre, and a lot of my love for guitar playing comes from learning from him and his influences, which eventually became my influences.

    Dad   Guitar   Influence  
    Source: noisey.vice.com
  • I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

    Country   Heart   Artist  
  • Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.

    Golf   Guitar   Play  
    "A Q&A With Merle Haggard". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. March 24, 2005.
  • I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.

    Moving   Guitar   Way  
    Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.21, Verso
  • I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

  • I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them.

    Hate   Guitar   People  
  • If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

  • Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.

    Thinking   Rocks   Guitar  
  • ,,, all around it would have to be Eddie Cochran, because it wasn't just music with him; it was his guitar playing, his look, his singing, I'd say that, all things considered, he's probably my favorite "cat" of all time

    Music   Cat   Guitar  
  • Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.

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