Guitar Quotes

I didn't look up and say, "Oh, man, if I learn how to play a guitar I could make not much money, but I'd make a decent living like Eric Clapton or somebody." There wasn't nothing like that out there.

The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

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.

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

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.

Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.

There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went through my Black Sabbath phase before I even started playing guitar.

Bad music can make you weak.

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.

I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.

I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star.

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.

God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.

My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.

Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.

The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole.

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

Tonight I just need my guitar.

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other things I could do.

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the side hairdos are not metal no matter what distortion pedal they have for their guitars.

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s not the norm.

Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar.

Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I'm not picky. I never think, 'Oh, this neck isn't made of ebony,' or, 'These strings don't feel correct.' It doesn't matter too much.

I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.