Guitar Quotes

Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

A student might ask, how long will it take to learn guitar..., the answer is, as long as you live - that short.

But we go out as a band because we enjoy each others company, first of all. And its the payoff for me, to go out and play my art and still play guitar, which is my life.

All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.

I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.

I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.

From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.

My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one.

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

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

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.

I don't consider myself a skilled enough instrumentalist to be able to create the atmosphere that I want with just my guitar by myself.

My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn't just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.

I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.

I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.

I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

Mogami cable is durable and flexible enough to practically build a suspension bridge with but I'll settle for using it for my guitars and amps!

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!