Guitar Quotes

Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.

I think the furthest I ever got was Guitar Hero. If I could start a band like that, I think I could do it.

You can't get a guitar player like Dweezil without his commitment to the work that it takes A) to be the musician that he is and B) to the music itself.

When I'm playing guitar, I just try and put those words into lyrics and just try a few things. It's all over the place.

I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid.

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

A lot of guitar players get stuck on a person ... before they find out who they really are ... every guitar player should remember be yourself - just let it rip.

It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.

I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.

I started playing the acoustic guitar for more singer-songwriter type stuff. I bet if I would have gotten more approval for my "rock playing", I might be a world class shredder.

There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.

My dad brings a deep-seated knowledge of the British folk genre, and a lot of my love for guitar playing comes from learning from him and his influences, which eventually became my influences.

I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.

If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.

I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.

I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.

Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.

Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.

In 2010, I had been playing guitar for 50 years.

I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.

I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble; I thought of it as that. But I was playing guitar and ukulele when I was in second grade.

I'm a struggling guitar player.

People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.

I guess that somehow I've survived as a professional guitar player. I've made it 16 years now and I feel like I'm just getting started. Variety is a secret to the success of that.

Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.

It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words

I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from.

During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.

It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.

Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.