Guitar Quotes

I'm not very good at the accordion. If I played guitar, I wouldn't be on anyone's album. But because I play the accordion and no one else does, I end up doing strange things.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

We've got horse property and there's other stuff to do. Like, four wheel driving, we barbeque, drink beers, sit around and play guitars and have a merry 'ol time

I don't really collect guitars.

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to explain it. I can't imagine life without it.

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard.

Without missing a beat Roger says, All the moneys right down here and points to the 1st three frets.

On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

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.

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living

In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.

Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up

The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.