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I like guitar sounds to be a little somber. -- Joe Trohman
Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar. -- Mark White
I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like. -- Adrian Belew
Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality. -- Paul Simonon
I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off. -- Jeff Beck
I like to make my guitar sound mean. -- Mark Tremonti
A good player can make any guitar sound good. -- Mike Bloomfield
Don't be precious about anything-much less a certain guitar sound. There is always another interesting sound or effect just waiting to be discovered. -- Robin Guthrie
There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine. -- Matt Tong
Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor. -- Leo Kottke
It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking. -- Billy Corgan
Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound. -- Henry Rollins
There are a lot of really good guitar sounds and new kind atmospheres on the new Bon Jovi record. I think people are going to dig it, man. And it rocks hard. -- Richie Sambora
In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. -- Beck
I'm on this eternal quest to get the best guitar sound in the world, but my vision of what is 'the best' changes every time I go into the studio. Sometimes my goal is to make my guitar jump out, and sometimes I want it to lay back. -- James Hetfield
I like the sound of a Silvertone amp for myself. It's kind of cleaner guitar sounds when necessary, maybe a little less metal-sounding. But it really doesn't matter what amp I play through; it's really the way I voice chords and play guitar, how I strike the strings. -- Brian Bell
Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that I grew up listening to and that first drew me in. And then I always try to find somewhere for a bluesy guitar sound, because that's also what I love. -- Hunter Hayes
... I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake at the top end of it whenever I hear it, I always think, Man I could've played it better ... but I like the way it sounds. I'd never heard a guitar sound like that before... -- Eddie Van Halen
Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country world that I grew up listening to and that first drew me in. And then I always try to find somewhere for a bluesy guitar sound, because that's also what I love. Musically, I'm always finding my way home. -- Hunter Hayes
I was pillaging a lot of music that had nothing to do with guitar playing, using a lot of strange tunings and voicings and chord structures that aren't really that natural to the guitar; I ended up developing a harmonic palette that's not particularly natural to the guitar because I was always trying to make my guitar sound like something else. -- Daniel Rossen
It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'. -- Ian Williams
I never liked mellow sounding guitar. -- Tom Verlaine
My first love was the sound of guitar. -- Boz Scaggs
Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have. -- Joe Perry
That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar. -- Julian Casablancas
With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds. -- William Christopher Handy
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar. -- Andy Summers
Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound. -- Dick Dale
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar. -- Daisy Berkowitz
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. -- Squarepusher
The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great. -- Neal Schon
I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier. -- James Hetfield
If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth. -- Scott Putesky
To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period. -- Scott Ian
If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like. -- Eddie Van Halen
I don't collect the way other people do. Some people collect rare guitars, like, 'I have a '54 Strat worth $50,000.' And I don't collect the way Nash does. Nash has Duane Allman's guitar and Johnny Cash's guitar. I bought guitars because they sounded good. I played them, they sounded unbelievably good, and I couldn't resist. -- David Crosby
Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar. -- Frederic Chopin
Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good. -- Miles Davis
A guitar is more than just a sound box... it is part of your soul. -- Manuel Velazquez
If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson -- Greg Brown
Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound. -- Rokia Traore
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. -- Squarepusher
I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar. -- Lola Kirke
If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth. -- Scott Putesky
I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway. -- Brian May
Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't *you* want to play guitar? -- Joe Satriani
I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it. -- Bradford Cox
The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole. -- Dana Gould
I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it. -- Benjamin Booker
I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That's it. -- Benjamin Booker

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