Guitar Quotes

At age ten I switched to guitar, and I've loved the instrument ever since. And I love to practice. I just do. I just love guitar. It still brings a smile to my face!

When people ask me if I have a boyfriend, I tell them it’s my guitar because, really, it’s what I love and it’s what takes up all my time.

I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.

I drummed in some rock bands. I asked for a drum kit when I was 15 and my parents were kind enough to buy me one and I just started playing with my buddies who played guitar.

I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.

I took four years of violin, but got bored of it - over the years, I've been ADD with instruments. The only two that I've really stayed true to are guitar and piano.

But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .

If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.

Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.

Even though I play guitar, I don't do it publicly.

I always call myself a "student" of the guitar.

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

Jackson plays a broken guitar because he’s in love with it, and doesn’t want to fix it, I think. It’s so broken.

When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar.

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all nature, really.

I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic.

Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.

Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.

I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.

I've always loved Ibanez guitars, and in particular 7 strings.

When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.

I started harmonica at the age of four, and when I was 12 I started the guitar. Then I played at school.

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

When The Sixth Sense was the No. 1 movie in America, I had a Canadian boyfriend whose only assets at the time were a guitar and a van. I don't know what I was thinking.

I listen to everything. My I-Pod's really diverse-from guitar instrumentals to Rascal Flatts to Usher.

You’re not going to suck.’’ ‘‘Not at the guitar, anyway,’’ Shane said, deadpan. Claire punched him in the arm. ‘‘Ow.

I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

If I'm going to buy a new guitar, I take it to a good 'hot' room, like a tiled bathroom, and listen to the wood. If tone comes off the neck, you can bet it's gonna sound beautiful through an amp

There is also the guitar player Pat Metheny with whom I'd like to work with: he is so elegant and so emotional when he plays that I am sure that, together, we could make a good team.

I've never stopped working on songs and practising singing and guitar.

Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.

Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.

When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

She was just another notch on my guitar.

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

I'm going to go with ZZ Top -- they're my faves . . . because of the whole thing that they do with the guitars and the old Father Time beards.