Guitar Quotes

There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.

Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar

I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time

I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.

The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.

I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

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.

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar.

I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately.

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife.

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

One day, I just decided I'm ready to go. So I went down with my guitar and sat on the front steps of Sam Phillips recording studio.

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

My main objective with a home studio - I could get into doing full band demos - but my first objective is to cut things like guitar tracks and solos at home.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.

There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

I started my career in Dallas, yes. I was born and raised in Dallas. I started my career there when I was very young. My guitar was bigger than I was. That's how young I was.

They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

A new study found that women think men holding a guitar are more attractive, even if they are not playing it. In a related story, guys with an accordion will die alone.

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

It was great to do August Rush and have all the challenges of playing that character, especially the American accent for the first time and also playing the guitar and the conducting I had to do.

Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.

I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.