I Play Guitar Quotes

#1. I sing a bit and play guitar.

Jesse Metcalfe

#2. 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.

Colbie Caillat

#3. I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums ... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

Lucas Grabeel

#4. Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive

Les Paul

#5. When I was a teenager, I learned that in order to play guitar like Johnny Ramone, it takes a huge amount of physical effort.

Kevin Shields

#6. When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.

Garrett Hedlund

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

Eric Clapton

#8. I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too. Some of my friends are proper musicians but I'm a song-writer. I write songs.

Jim Sturgess

#9. I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

Harry Dean Stanton

#10. My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

Randy Travis

#11. I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

Peter Tork

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

Cameron Monaghan

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

Dustin Diamond

#14. My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.

Pete Townshend

#15. I started to play the guitar for a couple of years, which was fun. I still bring it out once in a while, could bust out a couple of songs, but I'm not very good at it.

Dirk Nowitzki

#16. The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. I loved Elvis and I found out that he wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes' ... so connecting that experience of going to see him play was pretty awesome. That's when I realised I wanted to play guitar.

Josh Homme

#17. I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.

Chino Moreno

#18. I shoulda learned to play the guitar.

Mark Knopfler

#19. I like people that can strap on a guitar and don't sweat the fact that you have to come up with a song in an hour. I want to work with someone who won't feel like they have to play along with Jason Molina. I want them to just have the confidence.

Jason Molina

#20. I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do.

Steve Vai

#21. This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world.

Les Paul

#22. Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

John Nettles

#23. When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

Miranda Cosgrove

#24. I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.

Joe Satriani

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

Kim Thayil

#26. I've always had to do things my way; I play guitar my way; I've taken myself to the edges of life my way; I've gotten clean my way; And I'm still here. Whether or not I deserve to be is another story.

Slash

#27. I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I started realizing other guitar players couldn't do it. I always went against the grain.

Johnny Ramone

#28. I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.

Bonnie Raitt

#29. I don't need to speak ... I play the guitar!

Joe Perry

#30. 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.

Syd Barrett

#31. I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.

Yul Vazquez

#32. I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.

Antje Traue

#33. When I started writing music on the guitar, it started off very folky because of my limited ability to play. It was slow, soft melodies. But then, as I got better on the guitar, I started exploring different sounds.

Kiesza

#34. I took piano lessons when I was younger and I've been trying to learn how to play the guitar recently. I'd really like to learn how to play the drums. They're a lot of fun and they require a lot of focus.

Vanessa Hudgens

#35. I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head.

Colin Hay

#36. I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.

Philip Kerr

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

Chris Isaak

#38. I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

Eugene Chadbourne

#39. I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute ... Just not well.

Kat Dennings

#40. When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas.

Willie Nelson

#41. I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.

Glenn Branca

#42. 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.

Rory Gallagher

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

Otis Rush

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

Link Wray

#45. Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.

Merle Haggard

#46. I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.

Angus Young

#47. I'm not very good at the accordion. If I played guitar, I wouldn't be on anyone's album. But because I play the accordion and no one else does, I end up doing strange things.

Daniel Handler

#48. As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing.

Les Paul

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

John Frusciante

#50. When The Who first started, we were playing blues, and I dug the blues and I knew what I was supposed to be playing, but I couldn't play it. I couldn't get it out. I knew what I had to play; it was in my head. I could hear the notes in my head, but I couldn't get them out on the guitar.

Pete Townshend

#51. I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.

Austin Butler

#52. I play the guitar a little bit.

Jim DeMint

#53. Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.

Aaron Johnson

#54. I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

Andy Partridge

#55. I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.

Doc Watson

#56. 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 every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.

Mac DeMarco

#57. I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

Ian McEwan

#58. There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, phenomenal drummer, young man with his technique, but do you think he would ever have the opportunity to play like that in another band? Of course he hadn't.

Jimmy Page

#59. It is impossible to watch a 'Friends' episode too many times. Phoebe is my favourite character. I used to play her songs on the guitar when I was a teenager. 'Smelly Cat' is very easy. It's only about three chords.

Michelle Dockery

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

Paul Simon

#61. I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

Don McLean

#62. Since I left Chicago, I'm a lone wolf. I put on the record player and sit and try to play on the guitar. I've got five guitars here and can't play them, but I'm always whompin' around.

James Cotton

#63. I play really bad punk rock guitar.

Rhys Ifans

#64. I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty futuristic as well.

Justin Bieber

#65. I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

Darren Criss

#66. I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand.

Michael Gambon

#67. I don't know why you're making the poor girl play with you," Peter said. "You're going to completely slaughter her."
"Well, I am the greatest Guitar Hero player of all time," Jack said.

Amanda Hocking

#68. I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.

Gabrielle Aplin

#69. I think Clapton is brilliant. He's the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.

Eddie Van Halen

#70. I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

John Lennon

#71. 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.

Alex Lifeson

#72. Of course there is school and sports, but I also like X-Box 360. 'Black Ops 3' is one of my favorites. I also like to play the guitar and piano.

Chandler Canterbury

#73. If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

Jeff VanderMeer

#74. I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

Saffron Burrows

#75. I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.

Kaitlyn Dever

#76. Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

Rokia Traore

#77. I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.

Jamie Blackley

#78. Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.

John Frusciante

#79. I'm really interested in trying to learn how to play the guitar since I've got two of them! I can kind of mess around on the piano, but I'm going to start learning how to play the guitar.

Danielle Bradbery

#80. Performance and music are inexorably tied together. And hell, I'll watch Brittany's Toxic music video all day. But there's a difference between that and listening to Leo Kottke play guitar. One is entertainment. The other is Music.

Patrick Rothfuss

#81. I play guitar; you'll find me at home strumming 'Vincent' on the guitar. I also read a lot of poetry, and Shakespeare was my first love, which was why I got into acting. A lot of the fighters are intelligent!

Dave Legeno

#82. I play piano (bit of guitar) and I sing and I love to jam and harmonize with other musical people.

Jade Hassoune

#83. I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.

Dan Auerbach

#84. I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.

Dave Mustaine

#85. I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn't touch a guitar for two years, but when I realized I was seeing the light at the end of the recovery tunnel and was going to live pain-free, I realized again that it was a fun little instrument to play.

Ronnie Montrose

#86. I picked up the guitar very late, in a very pagan way - I didn't know how to play, but I knew I had to. I drew and I had a diary, but it wasn't enough; I needed to express more. As soon as I learned two notes, I started to tell a story, which is why, I guess, my music resembles blues or folk.

Lou Doillon

#87. What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

Andy Summers

#88. I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.

Teena Marie

#89. I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it.

Miley Cyrus

#90. If a guy can play Guitar Hero with me and sit at home and watch the Food Network and read magazines with me, that's good. I don't think there are many guys that's fun for. It's a lot to ask.

Blake Lively

#91. I can embarrass myself very easily on guitar. It's funny because people say to me I can play anything; I'm God on the guitar. But I could make a big list of everything I can't play ... I'm grateful that people don't notice that.

Joe Satriani

#92. I come home from work, and depending on the day or depending on what was going on, if I needed to adjust, I'd just meditate or play guitar or watch some 'Monty Python.'

Brent Sexton

#93. I like to surf. I like to play guitar. I want to do college classes online. I wanted to do marine biology for a long time, but I don't know.

Ali Lohan

#94. I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

Carl Wilson

#95. The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

Tony Visconti

#96. I just sang at first - I didn't ever play guitar before The Kills.

Alison Mosshart

#97. I fancy myself as being very good at Guitar Hero. I really don't play any other videogames. I kind of fell in love with Guitar Hero the first time I played it, and went out and bought a system for it.

CM Punk

#98. I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Kurt Cobain

#99. People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a jazz guitar player. Wes Montgomery was a jazz guitarist, Joe Pass was a jazz guitarist (laughs).

Larry Carlton

#100. I'm a guitar player first. So my first hero was Angus Young from AC/DC. I used to copy every move that he did, play every lick that he would. I knew I wanted to be some kind of a rocker, back in the day.

Phillip Phillips