Guitar Quotes

If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.

I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar.

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.

I have no guitar technique.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

I had been practicing guitar about six months beforehand; I concentrated mostly on the songs I had to play. I got those down pretty well so they could use me actually playing.

I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how to play it, so I was a shitty teacher. I would never have went to me.

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

I'll never be the best guitar player.

I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.

But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

I play the piano a lot at home, I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage... I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.

I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.

I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't recall getting a first guitar.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.