Guitar Quotes

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.

I don't leave my room, and all I am surrounded by are guitars and equipment, y'know? It's not always the best place to be.

It's really funny, I think to myself... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things don't change.

Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.

With music, I'm comfortable singing to people but I'm not that comfortable playing the guitar.

I want a thousand guitars . . .

I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it.

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.

If I ever get some free time I end up thinking about what to make next. I don't pick up a guitar and start playing the songs I already know; I immediately try to write a riff.

I have a couple of nice guitars that I use, but I don't have anything that I collect. I collect a lot of dust in my apartment, if that counts for anything.

B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.

I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.

In my case, I am improvising with existing sound files. I use an MSP patch that a friend of mine made, and you have to improvise when you use this patch. I don't use a guitar in performance anymore.

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.

It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around on the floor playing guitar.

I don't really feel like a rock artist, but I guess in the small category of the world of music genres, that's where I fall in because I've got a guitar.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar.

I got a lot more interested in songs that could hold up completely on their own, with just a guitar and voice. For some people that's easy to do, but I find it's really difficult.

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes... it's nice to have different paints on your palette.

I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.

I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments.

He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly.

I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.

As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.

My brother plays guitar and base and writes. His name is Chase Ryan.

I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’

Women are my hobby... every man needs something to keep his hands busy, and I don't have a guitar like Eddie and Michael, or some drums to bash like Alex, so I have to find some friends.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.

I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve Allen Show that got me into rock music.

It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.

He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun.

I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar.