CENTS STYLES AND THEORIES
by:Cente Maglaque

Monday, October 24, 2011

Words of the Legends

Words of the Legends

"Boys as a species were all a bunch of zeros / Except for the ones that played that guitar."
- Mary Chapin Carpenter, "Girls With Guitars"

"I realized that the only way I was ever going to fit into society and have a role was via the guitar."
- Pete Townshend

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

"And the angels had guitars even before they had wings / If you hold onto a chorus you can get through the night…"
- Meat Loaf, "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through"





THE LEGENDS SPEAK

"You can’t think and play. If you think about what you’re playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music I feel, concenctrate on the music, focus on what you’re playing and let the playing come out. Once you start thinking about doing this or doing that, it’s not good. What you are doing is like a language.
You have a whole collection of musical ideas and thoughts that you’ve accumulated through your musical history plus all the musical history of the whole world and it’s all in your subconscious and you draw upon it when you play” -Joe Pass




“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.”
“I don’t care about the rules. In fact, if I don’t break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I’m not doing my job properly.” -Jeff Beck

“It’s been very important throughout my career that I’ve met all the guys I’ve copied, because at each stage they’ve said, ‘Don’t play like me, play like you.”
“My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.” -Eric Clapton



“A good way to carve your individuality is to get a tape recorder and get into a room that’s kind of dark — where you don’t have interruptions — and then just play with a rhythm machine.
After a while, it’s like a deck of cards on the table, and you can begin to see the riffs that came from this guy, the riffs that came from that guy, and then the two or three riffs that are yours. Then you start concentrating on your riffs until you develop an individual sound.” -Carlos Santana

“Recording is God’s way of telling you that you suck.”
“There may be a lot of police in this world, but there sure is no music police”
-Bob Brozman