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Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string. -- Pele
My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records. -- Chris Isaak
I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings -- Macklemore
I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings. -- Zacky Vengeance
Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles. -- Lee Smolin
I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers. -- Jam Master Jay
George had taken off all ten of his fingers and tied them into a bundle with what appeared to be either his own small intestines, or a guitar string; as I walked into the room, he lovingly placed the bundle on his head. -- Alan Goldsher
To paint one must forget everything else. Where you live, who you know, what you eat, when to sleep. The landscape of the canvas becomes your only reality. The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command. -- Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957. -- Roger McGuinn
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. -- Andres Segovia
Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere. -- Keith Richards
I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine. -- Malcolm-Jamal Warner
I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. -- Keith Richards
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune. -- Pete Seeger
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. -- B. B. King
When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7. -- Les Paul
With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything. -- Ben Folds
All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it. -- Guy Clark
I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing. -- Ronnie Montrose
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. -- Brian Eno
I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making. -- Ian Williams
My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it. -- Alex Lifeson
I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon-string guitar hanging on the wall in my house and a bunch of classical guitar books to grab. I kind of do that just for fun. -- Rivers Cuomo
The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it. -- Eric Clapton
My favorite guitar now is my Martin HD-7 because it's got everything. It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing. -- Roger McGuinn
I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction. -- Eddie Van Halen
After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string guitar. All I have to do is hit a couple of clean chords and the endorphins are right there. It's like the top of my head has come off and stardust and magic have fallen in. -- April Gornik
The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra. -- Harry Chapin

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