Guitar Quotes

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin

Sometimes we woke up and feel like a Guitar Master, sometimes we woke up and feel like a complete fool. but that's the fun part of learning guitar

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars bar.

Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.

I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied.

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels.

You don't find a style. A style finds you

I play guitar because it lets me dream out loud.

Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

The guitar is a meditative tool to touch God and find love within yourself.

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar.

The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar