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I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent. -- Tim Hudson
I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player. -- Laurent Brancowitz
I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one. -- Taylor Swift
I've never liked having like a set kind of schedule of training. Even when I was doing guitar lessons, I never used to practice. -- Dean Geyer
I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better. -- Ace Frehley
I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet. -- Scott Ian
I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar. -- Taylor Swift
I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day. -- David Gilmour
It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together. -- Jim Sullivan
I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and guitar, so my husband and I listen to them in the evening. -- Jane Seymour
My guitar playing has not developed as much as I think it could because I never practice. I only play when I'm writing or recording or when I'm playing on tour. When I'm sitting around at home, I never play. -- Juliana Hatfield
I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school. -- Alvin Lee
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
My heroes, I couldn't imagine them practicing. Like Bob Dylan, you know? Bob Dylan's a very, very good guitar player, but it's like he's trying to hide it. I always loved this attitude. When you're very good... it's like being an athlete - and I always hated sports! -- Laurent Brancowitz
At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player. -- James Iha
I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play. -- Ringo Starr
I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's. -- Ian MacKaye
When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice. -- Eddie Van Halen
I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the guys who strummed acoustic guitars at parties were the ones who got the attention. So I asked a friend to show me a few chords, and when I moved to L.A. I spent a lot of time practicing my guitar. -- Chris Carmack
Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage. -- Dave Grohl
I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat. -- Wes Montgomery
To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out. -- Jessica Hische
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. -- Mark Knopfler

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