Guitar Quotes

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

Link Wray is the all-time legend.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.

Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.

In my opinion, if you buy a ticket to see me you're buying experience. People don't want to see me stand there and play guitar, they want to party with us.

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.

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.

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

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life.

I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.

Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

Being a female hard rocker and guitar player, I felt the need to put out a memoir. Almost like a rock 'n' roll women manual for women.

I play the living hell out of my guitars daily, and as sure as the sun rises in the east, killer licks, ideas, grooves, patterns and songs erupt every time.

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.

You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass player playing five strings, take your shoe off and throw it at him.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.

I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.

I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.

My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

When I was a teenager, I learned that in order to play guitar like Johnny Ramone, it takes a huge amount of physical effort.

We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.

So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.

I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.

If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes ‘your arrangement’

I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.