Guitar Quotes

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.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't you want to play guitar?

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

A good player can make any guitar sound good.

All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.

There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

I'm not Amy the star, I'm Amy the girl with the guitar.

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.

My guitar was a loyal person to me.

Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

A man can’t have too many guitars or too many shotguns.

Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes

The guitar is an orchestra in itself.

I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.

Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

Bass is for people who can't play guitar

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

I'm full of dust and guitars.