Quotes by Guitar For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument. Andy Summers synthesizers guitar writing It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. Andy Summers keyboards competition guitar More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp. Andy Summers albums guitar two I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar. Angel Olsen guitar song thinking I just go where the guitar takes me. Angus Young take-me guitar Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.' Angus Young guitar fashion should-have Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me. Angus Young chords guitar play I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel. Angus Young guitar play believe I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!' Angus Young yelling guitar play If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it. Ani DiFranco guitar bed challenges These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when I have a moment to myself, I'll sit down with my guitar and open my journal, and start kind of massaging things together, and see if a song takes shape. Or sometimes, I'll just be hanging out with my guitar and come up with a chord progression or a lick, and that'll sort of sit around for a while waiting to marry itself to some words. So it's sort of haphazard and it's like...junk culture. I go around finding shiny objects and I glue them together laughs. Ani DiFranco guitar writing song I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.' Ani DiFranco classic guitar beautiful These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound. Ani DiFranco bending guitar beautiful I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring. Annie E. Clark female guitar player I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction. Annie E. Clark chasing guitar player I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life. Annie E. Clark guitar half player I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero. Annie E. Clark males guitar hero The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every song has a lot of different guitar sounds in it, so that's what it is. Annie E. Clark guitar sound song Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot closer to factory work than art, whatever level you're doing it at. Certainly chefs are used to living like rock 'n' rollers to some extent, inasmuch as we get a lot of those fringe benefits without having to learn how to play guitar. Anthony Bourdain rocks guitar art I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar. Anthony Bourdain guitar passion thinking «1234567891011»