Quotes About Guitar Solos

#1. 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

#2. I have them a few minutes to absorb everything while I teased Ubie, who only had to recover from his near-death experience. I was so glad Reyes hadn't ripped him to shreds. I liked him much better un-shredded. Unlike, say, my preference for lettuce or heavy metal guitar solos.

Darynda Jones

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

Josh Homme

#6. It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

Kirk Hammett

#7. 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

#8. I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.

Peter Capaldi

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. I would just like to say that Ritchie Blackmore did a bunch of great stuff guitar - wise. I'm happy to play the solo from 'Highway Star'. I always thought it was one of the most exciting guitar solos I'd ever played ...

Steve Morse

#12. I'm sure if Shakespear were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube" -Peter Capaldi.

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#13. 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.'

Richard D. James

#14. 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

#15. From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

Jason Hicks

#16. The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.

Colin Meloy

#17. In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

Chris Daughtry

#18. I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

Ace Frehley

#19. Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

David Pajo

#20. If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#21. All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.

Ian Anderson

#22. There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.

Francesco Clemente

#23. Love is a house with an unshakable foundation and an indestructible roof.

Yann Martel

#24. When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

Eddie Vedder

#25. Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Jean Anouilh

#26. Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player.

Bruce Springsteen

#27. In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of obese Americans has almost tripled; the percentage of Americans with diabetes has increased sevenfold.

Gary Taubes

#28. Barney Kessel was 'Mr. Guitar,' the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he swung his tail off, he was a heck of an arranger and could out-read anybody ...

Larry Coryell

#29. Wearing a hat implies that you are bald if you are a man and that your hair is dirty if you are a woman.

P. J. O'Rourke

#30. I live to hold communion With all that is divine, To feel there is a union Twixt Natures heart and mine.

George Linnaeus Banks

#31. I'm not a toy boy, bellybutton band, so I don't have to worry about that. Actually, I never did.

Juice Newton

#32. I'm kind of kooky, but do I look like a religious nut?

Peggy Lipton

#33. And I will go on kissing you till you are strong and gay and happy - and if they haven't died, they are still alive today.

Sigmund Freud

#34. In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.

Pope John Paul II

#35. It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#36. It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do.

David Gilmour

#37. She was the angel. My guardian angel disguised as the fucking grim reaper.

Mary Martel

#38. No one dared do it before, not in front of the King (opening sentence)

Gordon Thomas