Guitar Quotes

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.

Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.

With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.

I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.

I like to make my guitar sound mean.

I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.

Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.

I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds.

To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.

I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.

I've played guitar for years, and wanted to play guitar, but we got halfway through the last one and realized we hadn't used any.

What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.

I always travel with my guitar. I take it myself - with me in my hand. I don't like to send it by cargo because it's dangerous. There is no way I would do that.

I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!

You know what would be fun? Nobody wants to play Guitar Hero. But you can play the Beatles! You loved the Beatles!

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.

I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.

I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.

I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.'

I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer-songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head.

I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.

People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul.

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.

Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.

Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.