Guitar Quotes

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

My first love was the sound of guitar.

You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be bold.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

A man can never have too many pairs of sunglasses or too many guitars.

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin.

When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression.

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I'm a true blues man.

I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart.

I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel it from the heart. It hurts me. I'm killin' myself to tell them how it is.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

When I have the opportunity, I want to perform the guitar live for my fans. Please expect that!

I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

There' something about universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.

I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do.

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

But the day that I die will be the day that I shut my mouth and put down my guitar.

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it's all about.

David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

I smash guitars because I like them.

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.