Guitar Quotes

The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do, so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what it is.

I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

I'm quite happy for my voice to be pushed up, whereas in the past I wanted it buried with the guitars, or part of the band, not like I was thinking of myself as 'the singer'.

The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.

I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.

I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted to come back to the guitar.

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.

At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn't really like Van Halen.

I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano

The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.

It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.

Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.

When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.

The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.

I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.

The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.

I won't be able to live without my guitar, my phone or my boots on tour.

I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get together and play.

Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me.

If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.

I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?

51 Martin [guitar] sounded pretty good as new guitar. Martin has several levels of guitars now, and this one is pretty good.

I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.

If I wasn't so lazy, or if I had a roadie, I'd have a line of guitars on stage. I'd have a lap steel and a nylon string up there, but who wants to keep up with all that?

I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but it's almost like you need both.

I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor me, and I'd make up thirty minute songs and drive them nuts.

I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.

I very rarely sit down with a guitar and try to write a song. I usually think about it a lot and then I'll try to re-create what was in my head at the time.

I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick.

Slash can take three notes and make a beautiful solo. And that's one thing I've always really admired about his guitar playing. I'm a huge Slash fan all around.

I guess my guitar heroes shifted from people like Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix to people like Johnny Marr or John Squire.

What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?

It's really cool what you can do with a guitar and a Fender Twin and a space echo.

I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing.

All I do is sit at home and play guitar. That's seriously what I do.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

All my songs instinctively erupted from my guitar and lyrical visions followed the spirit of the music, bot image wise and rhythmical cadence wise. It remains one of life's greatest joys to this day.

It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful and touching with just me and my guitar.

Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.

If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer.

I've got my girl and my guitar, and for me that's enough.

For the record, if I were Superman, a pale, scrawny guy holding a guitar would be Kryptonite.