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Playing Guitar Quotes

You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.
- Libba Bray

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
- Jackson Browne

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
- Ryan Cabrera

I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.
- Vivian Campbell

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.
- Tom Chapin

Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.
- Bootsy Collins

You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just probably barely making a living, or probably having to have some other job, but being involved in one of those things that I really like to do. But that didn't work out like that.
- John Corbett

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.
- Chris Cornell

Human beings mostly aren't [evil]. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and playing guitars at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and heir hearts and minds will follow.
- Neil Gaiman

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
- Martin Gore

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
- Janis Ian

I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.
- Jonny Lang

If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar.
- John Mayer

I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.
- Kevin Mckidd

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.
- Buzz Osborne

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.
- Trevor Rabin

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.
- Bonnie Raitt

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.
- Buffy Saintemarie

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.
- Stevie Ray Vaughan

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.
- Dweezil Zappa

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