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I'm a person who loves to read quotes for inspiration in all areas of life.  So I thought I would start this thread for quotes about guitar or music.  So if you have a favorite or run across a good one please post.  Heck there are probably at least a hundred from Steve that inspire me.  This first one I'm sure everyone has read but I like it.

"Sometimes you want to give up the guitar.  You'll hate the guitar.  But if you stick with it you're gonna be rewarded."

Jimi Hendrix

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"If I make a mistake playing guitar, nobody dies." - Will McFarland at the 2015 Guitar Gathering.

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1 hour ago, UncleHammy said:

"If I make a mistake playing guitar, nobody dies." - Will McFarland at the 2015 Guitar Gathering.

UncleHammy, a great quote and Will McFarland did say this.   As I understand his entire quote was, "I'm not a neurosurgeon.  If I make a mistake playing guitar, nobody dies."

What bothers me (or did) is this came just before my 2nd neurosurgery:o:(

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“If it sounds good and if it feels good, then it IS good.” 
                                                    - Duke Ellington

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2 hours ago, matonanjin said:

As I understand his entire quote was, "I'm not a neurosurgeon.  If I make a mistake playing guitar, nobody dies."

Yes that is exactly what he said. 

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"If you miss practice one day, you can tell. If you miss practice two days, your friends can tell. If you miss practice three days, everybody can tell."  - Chet Atkins

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But finally and ultimately, music remains an intensely personal issue. Maybe the most important commitment you can make is to the music fan that lives inside of you, to find out just what it is about music that really, really knocks you out. In that discovery, you'll find most of what you need to know to take you wherever you need to go. All of you here have roads ahead of you that will be filled with good musical days, the ones where you feel like you can play or hear anything, and bad musical days, the ones where everything you do sounds like a bad Madonna tune. But that variety, that sense of unknowing, that feeling of having to make it up yourself, that sense of adventure — that is what music is at its best, and that's a big part of why having a life as a musician is so much fun.

—Pat Metheny, Berklee Commencement Address, 1997

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11 minutes ago, DianeB said:

But finally and ultimately, music remains an intensely personal issue. Maybe the most important commitment you can make is to the music fan that lives inside of you, to find out just what it is about music that really, really knocks you out. In that discovery, you'll find most of what you need to know to take you wherever you need to go. All of you here have roads ahead of you that will be filled with good musical days, the ones where you feel like you can play or hear anything, and bad musical days, the ones where everything you do sounds like a bad Madonna tune. But that variety, that sense of unknowing, that feeling of having to make it up yourself, that sense of adventure — that is what music is at its best, and that's a big part of why having a life as a musician is so much fun.

—Pat Metheny, Berklee Commencement Address, 1997

Diane that's exactly why I started this.  Great quote!

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Chet Atkins (in response to someone saying ‘That looked easy.’): ‘It didn’t use to be.’

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'It never has bothered me that I can’t do it YET! Tomorrow I will be closer – don’t be discouraged by the barriers.'

John Knowles C.G.P. (at the Fingerstyle Guitar Gathering, November 2017)

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All these Birds all Have some thing in common. Narrow Mindedness. It's ok to have a favorite kind of music. Problem is If you shut your self off from  The others. Then you are limiting your enjoyment. Because its all tied to gather. Ernie Ball5a6d3d92559cf_OldBirds.thumb.png.72c9af8a7d5040a7746f11fde4fff858.png

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"Don't be so serious. Playing should be fun, that's why they call it playing". A guy I was chatting to in the pub.

Ian

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Here's one

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

Andres Segovia

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"If you don't play you can't play"

 

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Well it ant going to play itself. My Grandmother

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of flat keys, I will fear no voicing: my barre and my capo, they comfort me.

—Yours truly, upon attempting Blood, Sweat & Tears

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"One of the secrets to my sound is almost beyond explanation. My battered old Martin guitar, Trigger, has the greatest tone I’ve ever heard from a guitar — and I’ve played a lot of guitars, including a lot of other Martins that were the exact same model as Trigger.

A lot of guys in the band have been with me for decades, but Trigger has outlasted every musician I’ve played with, and after all these years, I have come to believe we were fated for each other.

The two of us even look alike. My musician pals haven’t carved and written their names on me the way they have on Trigger, but we’re both pretty bruised and battered.

The holes I’ve worn in Trigger are from my pick zinging up and down a million times on the face of an acoustic guitar that’s not supposed to be played with a pick, but at this point those holes are part of what makes Trigger sound exactly right.”-

-Willie Nelson

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Here is a quote from Steve Krenz.  I think it is beautiful.

"Let me explain.  Playing guitar, as with any creative endeavor, for the vast majority is not about "being the best". 

 

(Forgive the upcoming metaphors)

 

It's about breaking through something - it's about creating something.  It's about pounding against the concrete layer put over us in our daily lives by this hardened world to eventually find a crack to burst through our flower.

 

It's about saying to this hardened, cynical world, there's more to me than just my role - I was made to create something.  

 

I'm not putting this as eloquently as I would like but I hope you understand.

 

We create because we were made to create.  It's why we try to paint, to sing, to play a guitar.

 

Learning guitar is not a talent show.  It's not about who sings the best or plays the best.  It's about getting the music that's inside of us out."

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Yes, yes, yes.  I stand by every word of this - even more so.

- Steve

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@rkl312 It's a joy helping you out. And, learning is a real encouragement to your soul.

Quote from Steve Krenz tonight in the chat room.  He is so right. What is your soul?  Your soul is your journey to follow your dreams.

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Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the music is so vast, and I think that's what knocks people out about him. But he's such a tasty player too. I think if Chopin had played guitar, he would have sounded like Lenny Breau.

Chet Atkins

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"Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it."

Thom Yorke
 

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