Guitar Quotes

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

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

Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.

Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!

When God plays guitar he uses Jeff Beck's hands.

I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

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.

That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist.

I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it.

Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.

The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.

I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it and I'm learning more and more everyday.

The angels had guitars before they had wings.

Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.

I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.

Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry.

I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like.

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.

At some point around '94 or '95, 'Rolling Stone' said that guitar rock was dead and that the Chemical Brothers were the future. I think that was the last issue of 'Rolling Stone' I ever bought.

Forget about every other lesson in the book. You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.

The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.

To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.

I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

Bad music can make you weak.

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard.