It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down a... TOM PETTY Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument... NINA SIMONE You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify an... BENMONT TENCH The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing ... LUKA SULIC If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song. CHRISTOPHER CROSS If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker. PATRICK CARNEY The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because be... JANE WIEDLIN I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a ... ELTON JOHN 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break: 1. Stop stressing 2. Stop worrying 3. Give re... GERMANY KENT It's cool to play the guitar, but to me it's even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and fo... DIPLO It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. ... DAVE BRUBECK The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You... STEVE VAI I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used ... STEVIE NICKS The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically... SERJ TANKIAN Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the ... DAN AUERBACH The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass,... RANDY BACHMAN My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the ... AARON NEVILLE You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the n... JACK ANTONOFF Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to... STEVE EARLE So many times, I watch games and think, 'Man, why is that guy trying to score like that? He can&... DRAYMOND GREEN Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it's about. The content's got to be... RON WHITE It's one of the most beautiful things in the world, to go off and make a film. At the heart of i... CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrumen... GLORIA ESTEFAN I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hu... ROBIN ZANDER The wonderful thing about cabaret is, you can do a lot of things you can't do in a concert. You ... RITA MORENO Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult... JEFF WEINER He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL I couldn't sing without a guitar. I like the way it feels to sing and be holding a guitar, even ... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of re... MAC DEMARCO Success is a Journey: so, don’t forget to pack your COURAGE: to face the obstacles heading your wa... PHILIP T. M. In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you... CAITLIN FITZGERALD When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up lovin... AMANDA FULLER The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well ... GENE SIMMONS For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a st... BOZ SCAGGS You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ... DEYTH BANGER All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't contr... SHANNON HOON Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing.... AL PACINO I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competit... OSCAR ROBERTSON I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choos... STEVE CARELL Do the thing and you will have the power. RALPH WALDO EMERSON You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most i... RICHARD D. JAMES But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynam... GARY BURTON If you can dream it, you can do it. ENZO FERRARI It's the things that you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that, in fact,... EVELYN GLENNIE You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too mu... DAVID EDWARDS If you tell me I can't do something, that's the worst thing to tell me. And that's what ... GURINDER CHADHA The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't ... GARY OLDMAN That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it'... ELENA DELLE DONNE I do loads of one-pot things because I feel like you can't go too far wrong. And I make a lot of... SOPHIE MCSHERA You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-... IRVINE WELSH When you break your pelvis, you can't do a whole lot. It took me about six weeks to be able to g... TONY HAWK Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an e... JON BON JOVI The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend i... ANTHONY HOPKINS It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'... IAN WILLIAMS I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film. AUSTIN BUTLER The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to ... BENJAMIN BRATT I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know ho... MARVIN GAYE If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the ma... MIKE NICHOLS Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you h... EDDIE VAN HALEN As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those inter... DAVID SANBORN The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar. ANDY SUMMERS If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it. VAN MORRISON If you think you can do it, you can. JOHN BURROUGHS It ain't bragging if you can do it. DIZZY DEAN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I looked at myself, and I just said, 'Well, you know, I can sing, but I'm not the greatest s... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN There's only one thing you can do in bankruptcy: break your word, break your deals. It allows yo... BARNEY FRANK I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke. ACE FREHLEY If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how... EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm kind of claustrophobic... It's not even like enclosed spaces. It's like I hate being... DAVE GROHL It's a farmers market. You can get whatever - peaches, a sandwich. There might be a little band ... CRAIG ROBINSON I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge ... CAROLINE SHAW Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Al... SUZANNE COLLINS Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I ... EMILY RIOS Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't ... CHARLES DURNING Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest ... ORNETTE COLEMAN Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it st... GENE WILDER I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can... EUGENE CHADBOURNE One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally ... BILLY COLLINS I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as tha... OLIVIA COLMAN I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a kn... TILMAN J. FERTITTA Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a... DIANE ENGLISH Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea... CRAIG GROESCHEL It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, w... ALVIN LEE When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a ... ALISON KRAUSS The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to... FRANK IERO I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can... HILL HARPER I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music ... KAILASH KHER I'm very much a believer in the character always heading for something or after something. But t... MONICA DOLAN I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and ... SAM DONALDSON You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not e... ROBERT CRUMB Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT
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DAVID CASSIDY I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and ... DAVID CASSIDY I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat und... DAVID CASSIDY I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. DAVID CASSIDY All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger... DAVID BOWIE I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am. DAVID CASSIDY We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be. DAVID CASSIDY All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and ... DAVID CASSIDY Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.' DAVID CASSIDY My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle... DAVID CASSIDY Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen o... DAVID CASSIDY My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience. DAVID CASSIDY I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't workin... DAVID CASSIDY My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I. DAVID CASSIDY I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows. DAVID CASSIDY I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished. DAVID CASSIDY What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Bro... DAVID CASSIDY In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though... DAVID CASSIDY All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me. DAVID CASSIDY I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in... DAVID CASSIDY I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on. DAVID CASSIDY Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I m... DAVID CASSIDY I've really sensed that people have an affection for me. DAVID CASSIDY I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud o... DAVID CASSIDY I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding a... DAVID CASSIDY I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thi... DAVID CASSIDY My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me. DAVID CASSIDY In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot. DAVID CASSIDY I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw s... DAVID CASSIDY