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Blues Guitar Quotes

You don’t have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don’t - you’re working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord Picture Quote #1

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I’d never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar Picture Quote #1

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important Picture Quote #1

My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I’m a true blues man Picture Quote #1

When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to be playing, but I couldn’t play it. I couldn’t get it out. I knew what I had to play; it was in my head. I could hear the notes in my head, but I couldn’t get them out on the guitar Picture Quote #1

My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I’ve tried to make an album of Robert Johnson covers that, well, while not totally faithful for blues purists, is faithful for people like me that grew up with the 60s and the electric blues-rock versions of Johnson’s songs Picture Quote #1

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As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It’s not a style that’s difficult to pick up. It’s purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with Picture Quote #1

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric’s vocals. There’s never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together Picture Quote #1

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I’m always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female Picture Quote #1

My mum’s family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me Picture Quote #1

If you don’t know the blues... there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music Picture Quote #1

The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals Picture Quote #1

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There’s a lot of women in blues music, lots of strong women and that sort of stuff. It’s not the first thing that comes to mind when you think about blues. There were a lot of powerful blues guitar players in the olden times that were women. It’s just that when you think about blues, you have this one image in your mind Picture Quote #1

You’ve heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that’s because there’s been so many can do it better’n I can, play the blues better’n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things Picture Quote #1

The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity Picture Quote #1

If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go Picture Quote #1

I think that the blues is in everything, so it’s not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go ‘Ooh ooh oooh,’ and that’s the blues. You hear a rock n’ roll song. That’s the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They’re playing the blues Picture Quote #1

Sometimes I feel like nothin,’ somethin’ throwed away, somethin’ throwed away. and then I get my guitar, play the blues all day Picture Quote #1

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I’m not good enough to be playin’ much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers Picture Quote #1

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice Picture Quote #1

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen Picture Quote #1

I wouldn’t count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it Picture Quote #1

Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band Picture Quote #1

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies Picture Quote #1

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Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent Picture Quote #1

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man Picture Quote #1

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock Picture Quote #1

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living Picture Quote #1

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You don’t have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don’t - you’re working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord (Blues Guitar Quotes) If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I’d never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar. (Blues Guitar Quotes) I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important. (Blues Guitar Quotes) My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I’m a true blues man. (Blues Guitar Quotes) When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to be playing, but I couldn’t play it. I couldn’t get it out. I knew what I had to play; it was in my head. I could hear the notes in my head, but I couldn’t get them out on the guitar. (Blues Guitar Quotes) My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I’ve tried to make an album of Robert Johnson covers that, well, while not totally faithful for blues purists, is faithful for people like me that grew up with the 60s and the electric blues-rock versions of Johnson’s songs. (Blues Guitar Quotes) As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It’s not a style that’s difficult to pick up. It’s purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with. (Blues Guitar Quotes) The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric’s vocals. There’s never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together. (Blues Guitar Quotes) Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I’m always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female. (Blues Guitar Quotes) My mum’s family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me. (Blues Guitar Quotes) If you don’t know the blues... there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. (Blues Guitar Quotes) The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals. (Blues Guitar Quotes) There’s a lot of women in blues music, lots of strong women and that sort of stuff. It’s not the first thing that comes to mind when you think about blues. There were a lot of powerful blues guitar players in the olden times that were women. It’s just that when you think about blues, you have this one image in your mind. (Blues Guitar Quotes) You’ve heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that’s because there’s been so many can do it better’n I can, play the blues better’n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things. (Blues Guitar Quotes) The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity (Blues Guitar Quotes) If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go (Blues Guitar Quotes) I think that the blues is in everything, so it’s not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go ‘Ooh ooh oooh,’ and that’s the blues. You hear a rock n’ roll song. That’s the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They’re playing the blues (Blues Guitar Quotes) Sometimes I feel like nothin,’ somethin’ throwed away, somethin’ throwed away. and then I get my guitar, play the blues all day (Blues Guitar Quotes) I’m not good enough to be playin’ much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers (Blues Guitar Quotes) I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice (Blues Guitar Quotes) My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen (Blues Guitar Quotes) I wouldn’t count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it (Blues Guitar Quotes) Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band (Blues Guitar Quotes) I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies (Blues Guitar Quotes) Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent (Blues Guitar Quotes) I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man (Blues Guitar Quotes) I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock (Blues Guitar Quotes) I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living (Blues Guitar Quotes)