Guitar Quotes

I would try to pick the guitar up sometimes, like, "Hey, remember me?" It was like reintroducing yourself to someone who's got a grudge.

I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it.

You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting too caught up in little tweezers of perfection.

My guitar wants to kill your mama.

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.

I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I am a composer and a producer.

I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to be wasted to get up there and sing.

I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.

You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.

Touring with Brian May was like a dream come true that happened early in my career. He inspired me with the way he harmonized and layered his guitar sounds.

May was so great to work with, he even took me over to Japan for some dates. It blew me away when he let me play his guitar on stage with him.

When I started out jumping around with a tennis racket, I never thought I would end up on a list of the best guitar players in the world. It makes me feel proud of the hard work I've put in.

I'm still constantly learning and that's what keeps me excited about the guitar.

When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it

The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.

My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.

Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound.

Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.

My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half.

I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar!

It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.

I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.

I play piano (bit of guitar) and I sing and I love to jam and harmonize with other musical people.

I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song.

I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.

Since I left Chicago, I'm a lone wolf. I put on the record player and sit and try to play on the guitar. I've got five guitars here and can't play them, but I'm always whompin' around.

I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.

I started putting words together, making rhymes and being witty with the wordplay. I can play a little bit of guitar, and that's something I'm going to dedicate more time to doing.

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

I'm learning on the guitar all the time.

I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.

All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.