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Classical Guitarist Inspirational Quotes (123)

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Everyone has their own sound, and if you're heard enough, folks will come to recognize it. Style however, is a different thing. Try to express your own ideas. It's much more difficult to do, but the rewards are there if you're good enough to pull it off.
Chet Atkins
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It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.
Andres Segovia
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If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.
Zakk Wylde
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There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.
Pepe Romero
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I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.
Toru Takemitsu
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Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.
Jerry Cantrell
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As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass.
Billy Sheehan
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Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.
Zakk Wylde
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The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose melancholic voice awakes in our soul exquisite reveries.
Andres Segovia
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You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.
Andres Segovia
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And, as my father used to tell me growing up, Play it beautiful, play it beautiful. He said, I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music.
Christopher Parkening
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Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to [pianists] Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner. Then I got interested in [saxophonist] John Coltrane.
Lenny Breau
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You should only play pieces that you're willing to marry.
Pepe Romero
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A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Chet Atkins
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My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.
Andres Segovia
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I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.
Billy Sheehan
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Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.
Jerry Cantrell
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Hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout.
Julian Bream
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And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.
Billy Sheehan
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To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.
Jerry Cantrell
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The guitar is a meditative tool to touch God and find love within yourself.
Pepe Romero
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I knew that I was going to dedicate my life to music and that was it.
Zakk Wylde
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Protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind his back. Smart man!.
Liona Boyd
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Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Andres Segovia
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