Guitar Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't really collect guitars.

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

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 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 started playing guitar kind of by accident.

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

My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

This PRS is perfect for anyone who wants an awesome quality, versatile, rockin' guitar at an affordable price. I love it; try it out!

Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.

I was given all of my dad's guitars when he passed, and they were being stored at the house. My mother decided they were hers again, and she took them all back, and now they're going up for auction.

My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.

It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't really know how to do, it's terrifying.

I don't recall getting a first guitar.

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.

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.

In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars being sold were designed between '48 and '59, Gibson SGs in '61.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

Its just something Ive always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.