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In the '90s, guitar solos were dead. -- Chris Daughtry
I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube. -- Peter Capaldi
It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos. -- Kirk Hammett
Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create. -- Dan Auerbach
And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it. -- Dave Navarro
I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through. -- Brian Setzer
I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more. -- Kirk Hammett
The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo. -- David Lee Roth
My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'. -- Jimmy Page
I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits. -- Ace Frehley
Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos. -- Josh Homme
Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos. -- Josh Homme
Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo. -- J Mascis
Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world. -- John Frusciante
I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs. -- Taylor Hawkins
My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it. -- Slash
I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again. -- Gary Cherone
I STILL APPROACH A SCENE AS ONE WOULD APPROACH A GUITAR SOLO. YOU DON'T EXACTLY KNOW HOW YOU'RE GOING TO PHRASE THIS OR THAT. WHICH I THINK IS BEAUTIFUL. THAT IDEA OF CHANCE. -- Johnny Depp
It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.' -- Aphex Twin
It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.' -- Aphex Twin
Sometimes it's the mistakes that end up leading you into new territory .. like the guitar solo on 'Peelin' Taters' - I had some speaker problems, but the tone ended up sounding better than if I had new speakers .. it's a 60's Nashville, 'uptown' thing -- Junior Brown
Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally. -- Robyn Hitchcock
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. -- Wynton Marsalis
You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he's showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it's confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn't feel like he deserves to be there. -- Bruno Mars
On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to play the composite solo, tightened it up and replayed it for the final version. -- Kirk Hammett
So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to. -- Lee Ann Womack
I do media every day I tour and the travel itself is a bit testing, so I don't get to do much gregarious activity when I'm on the road, but I do enough barbequing and enough hanging out and training with enough law enforcement and military to keep me bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and to make sure my guitar solos every night breath fire. -- Ted Nugent
Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they are all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist. -- Ritchie Blackmore
Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool. -- David Pajo
From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code. -- Jason Hicks
When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day. -- Jimmy Page
I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests. -- Noah Cicero

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