Guitar Quotes

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

To play the guitar well is easy, to play the guitar poorly is difficult.

If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

Guitar players never listen to lead singers.

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on an acoustic guitar. You must develop it as a totally different thing.

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.

My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.

Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.

I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.

For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.

About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.

Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of Christ.

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

When words fail, the guitar speaks.

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.

I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

You can play guitar in your canteen, you know, your hair might be longer, but there's a lot more to playing than travelling around universities and things.

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.

Let me live my life the way I want to.

My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.

When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

The best thing is I can say 'I'm working' when I'm having a cup of tea and a cigarette and fiddling on the guitar.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

I shoulda learned to play the guitar.

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.

Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.

Sometimes, you don't need a $5,000 guitar - you need $5,000 worth of lessons.

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do.

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.