Guitar Quotes

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

I'm not going to be sitting on a stool with an acoustic guitar singing about my troubles anytime soon. I mean, I'm going to sing about my troubles but in an aggressive way. In my own way.

I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative and break out the guitar or pen and write about it.

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.

I sing a bit and play guitar.

I can play the air guitar really, really well.

My first instrument was the drums. Not quite sure why I quit and changed to guitar, but I'm sure my parents might have convinced me that the guitar was way better.

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.

If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.

If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming.

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

I don't need to speak...I play the guitar!

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.

Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that

Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar.

I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time - that was social media in 1992.

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

I went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar.

In Japan they're definitely more over the top. They had four Boogie stacks and 20 guitars. But otherwise it's pretty much the same thing, except there's a translator. It's really nice.

We have a storage close by where I live, that's very organised. My guitar tech, Matty organised it all, labeled everything.

Almost 15 with music, we have so many guitars that we developed over the years. The latest one is 'The Majesty' guitar, which I'm really proud of.

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

I don't really care what music's made on - I love guitars, but I'm fine with great electronic music.

I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.

Every guitar has a personality.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.

I'm a horrible control freak. It's awful! I'm nice, but if someone is folding some sheets while I am playing the guitar, I keep one eye on the way that they are folding the sheets.

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well.

I love to sing, but I'm just terrible. I play guitar, and I play enough where I can play most country stuff, and I'll sing when it's just me.

I don't find inspiration by just sitting down with a guitar anymore. I lost that. I started being so interested in other kinds of music.

Everything that I do I hear and then I go with my hands, and since I use my hands for both piano and guitar that is kind of hands-on.

I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.

I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.

I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff when I was a teenager.

When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.

Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.

The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.