George Harrison
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands."
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Jimi Hendrix
Musician, Guitarist
"Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion."
Miles Davis
Musician
"Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself."
Frederic Chopin
Composer
"Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two."
Patti Smith
Musician
"My sunglasses are like my guitar."
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"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes."
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"I just go where the guitar takes me."
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"I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out."
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"I have no fear of death, so I don't think about it. I love the adrenalin kick that danger brings. Others get their kicks bungee jumping from tall buildings. I'm very, very competitive. I want to be the best at everything I do. It's not driving - it's everything - it might be playing my guitar, I try to be the best at it as I possibly can."
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"Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off."
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"A guitar is something you can hold and love and it's never going to bug you. But here's the secret about the guitar - it's defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know."
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"I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic."
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"I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions."
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"Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero."
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"When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs."
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"One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen."
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"I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels."
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"The guitar is a meditative tool to touch God and find love within yourself."
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"If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar"
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"Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you."
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"A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me."
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"I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people"
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"I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history."
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"Sometimes it's the mistakes that end up leading you into new territory .. like the guitar solo on 'Peelin' Taters' - I had some speaker problems, but the tone ended up sounding better than if I had new speakers .. it's a 60's Nashville, 'uptown' thing"
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".. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive"
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