Guitar Quotes

It's a guy thing, playing the guitar. Being a female and trying to go to the same auditions as the guys, it's pretty hard.

I never wanted to play guitar when I was younger. I wanted to be a drummer because everybody plays guitar, and I didn't want to do what everybody else wanted to do.

Doctor, if I put this here guitar down now I ain't never going to wake up.

It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.

I sit down with a guitar player and if there's a situation I feel strongly about, or a guy that I've been thinking about or if I'm mad at a guy, it comes out.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana!

I think with a lot of producers, they think computers can create the best drum track, or guitar track and it comes off as too artificial.

You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the drums... You only notice the guitar when it's not there.

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!

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

My guitar, I sing of thee 'Tis with thee that I decoy And ensnare enchantingly the ladies I enjoy.

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.

I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music

Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.

A guitar has moonlight in it.

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

Shut Up and Play your Guitar.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.

No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar