Quotes About Guitar

#1. I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.

Trey Anastasio

#2. 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.

Steven Tyler

#3. Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me.

Stephenie Meyer

#4. He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble', I would have never picked up a guitar.

Pete Townshend

#5. I would think that the drumstick is probably pretty good. Because you can put that anywhere. If you are a strong guy, you can put it in the throat, the nose, the mouth, the ear. It's also easily concealed. The guitar is pretty good, but you have to break it. And that's pretty difficult.

Dolph Lundgren

#6. I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

Dr. John

#7. Sometimes you'll want to give up the guitar. You'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

Jimi Hendrix

#8. My guitar's name was Liz. As in, short for Elizabeth, Queen of England. She was a lady.
Don't judge.

Rachael Wade

#9. When I usually use a theremin during a set, it feels ... it feels good, because I get to take a break from playing guitar, it's a little rest, really, and I know that it's only five or ten minutes until the show ends and I can get a drink.

Jon Spencer

#10. When words fail, the guitar speaks.

George Szell

#11. The guitar's still around me. I slip it off and put it down. I want to feel him. To feel his breath on my neck. The warmth of his skin. To feel something other than sadness.
Hold me, I tell him silently. Hold me here. To this place. This life. Make me want you. Want this. Want something. Please

Jennifer Donnelly

#12. I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

Alvin Lee

#13. I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.

Laurent Brancowitz

#14. I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

Cass McCombs

#15. My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course I could play guitar better than him when I was about 12. But I couldn't paint better than him. So I went, 'I'm going to be the guitarist of the house, not the painter.'

David Russell

#16. I quickly learned to take anger and use it to motivate me. My sister ran away from home, and she was my world. And that was that. The guitar became my world.

Meredith Brooks

#17. I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more.

Robbie Robertson

#18. My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.

Dan Auerbach

#19. Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.

Leo Kottke

#20. Maybe some people may have thought or imagined that Islam drains all creativity. In fact, when you look at history, you discover that the golden age of Spain is what actually produced what we call the guitar.

Cat Stevens

#21. Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

Michael Stipe

#22. I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

Jimmy Page

#23. I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

Courtney Love

#24. I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

Pete Townshend

#25. I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

Russell Crowe

#26. Every album, I'm worried that I'm a dork and a fraud - 'What if I can't sing anymore?' Then I stop thinking and start playing guitar, and I realize that it's okay to suck, and move forward.

Pink

#27. I used to be a lot more engaged on an improvisational level than other people. I was always on tour and always had a guitar in my hands, and when I went back home, my battery was at full charge. I had a lot of energy to get off, just impulses that I could draw upon.

Bradford Cox

#28. I think it's safe to say that if you talk to anybody in Ireland, they'll have a passing knowledge of the guitar. It was something that I couldn't get away from when I was younger: guitars played in shops and parties, just everywhere.

James Vincent McMorrow

#29. In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

Don McLean

#30. Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.

Mark White

#31. As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

James Bay

#32. I figured out how to get the guitar to rumble ... I put it on the middle pickup, turn the tone know down, grab it by the wang bar, and just shake it on the floor ... a Stratocaster is pretty tough - I wouldn't recommend that anybody do that with their ES-335

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#33. Denton struck Charley as the kind of man who never wasted energy on extra movement or idle chitchat. He was foursquare Sonny Boy Williamson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a Silvertone guitar, older than old school.

Natalie Baszile

#34. An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

Sting

#35. And, so, when I picked up the guitar, suddenly, just playing a couple of notes really, really spoke to me. It was almost like I should have been doing it prior to that. You know, it was something that just felt really natural.

Slash

#36. Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.

Pete Townshend

#37. It was fun playing a horrible, snotty kid in 'Harry Potter', and then playing Prince Charming where I was also singing and playing guitar, and then playing a completely different character.

Freddie Stroma

#38. I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart.

Eddie Kirkland

#39. My first band was an Argentinian folk group when I was 10. When I was 12 I had my electric guitar, and by the time I was 13, the Beatles came into the scene, and that was over. So I have a mixture of all these traditions, and I think that's who I am, a mixture of everything.

Gustavo Santaolalla

#40. It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style.

Kenny Loggins

#41. Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

Trey Anastasio

#42. When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.

Gary Jarman

#43. I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.

Kaki King

#44. I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

Erin McKeown

#45. Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

Michael Bamberger

#46. I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads.

Phil Anselmo

#47. What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?

Talib Kweli

#48. Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan, Stephen King, and Dave Barry-a band that, according to Barry, "plays music as well as Metallica writes novels".

Otto Penzler

#49. Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

Rod Stewart

#50. Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

Dan Auerbach

#51. We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.

Pat Mastelotto

#52. My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

Arthur Darvill

#53. I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

Gregory Harrison

#54. Where the heck is Nick?" she asks. Just hearing Abby say Nick's name makes Leah suck in her lips. "Feeling up a guitar somewhere?" I suggest. "Yeah," says Leah. "Most awkward way ever to get a splinter.

Becky Albertalli

#55. Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.

Elvis Costello

#56. As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

Adam Jones

#57. I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.

Tommy Bolin

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

Andy Summers

#59. No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear.

Roger McGuinn

#60. 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.

Chris Cornell

#61. I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.

Jamie Blackley

#62. My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

Zach Condon

#63. When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved it. I started making up my own songs right away.

Diane Warren

#64. 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.

James Hetfield

#65. Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.

Dave Edmunds

#66. The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.

Rodney Atkins

#67. Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first heard the amazing bass guitar of James Jamerson, who played on all the big Motown hits of the '60s and '70s, I knew bass guitar was my instrument.

Suzi Quatro

#68. I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

Jerry Reed

#69. I either write songs on guitar, or ... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.

Jay Watson

#70. 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.

Orianthi

#71. The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.

Jimmy Page

#72. I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.

Zacky Vengeance

#73. Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.

Keith Rabois

#74. 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.

George Benson

#75. You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot - I don't really play with picks.

James Vincent McMorrow

#76. A guitar is something you can hold and love and it's never going to bug you. But here's the secret about the guitar - it's defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know.

Les Paul

#77. EverTune is, without a doubt, the most important advance in guitar playing since the electric tuner. Using the EverTune, both onstage and in the studio, has completely changed the game. It's almost impossible to explain how amazing this innovation is. Pure magic!

Ben Weinman

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

Tom Jenkinson

#79. I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

Ian Williams

#80. The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.

Merle Haggard

#81. In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

Glenn Tipton

#82. But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

Krist Novoselic

#83. I'm a horrible control freak. It's awful! I'm nice, but if someone is folding some sheets while I am playing the guitar, I keep one eye on the way that they are folding the sheets.

Juana Molina

#84. I'd never look at a pick again without wondering if it was Cole's heart.
He cocked an eyebrow. But the look in your eyes was murderous. Do you have a thing against guitar picks, or we're you hoping I'd be stupid enough to still carry my heart around with me?

Brodi Ashton

#85. I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films.

Tom Holland

#86. Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can't take your eyes off the man when he's on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar.

Ne-Yo

#87. I listen to everything. My I-Pod's really diverse-from guitar instrumentals to Rascal Flatts to Usher.

Orianthi

#88. I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously disappeared from my guitar case.

Dan Piraro

#89. My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

Gary Clark Jr.

#90. I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.

George Harrison

#91. I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

Mike Figgis

#92. I held out the painting of the cat and the snake.
"It's a cat and a snake," Thoth said.
Thank you, god of wisdom. You placed it for us to find, didn't you? You're trying to give us some sort of clue."
"Who, me?"
Just kill him, Horus said.
Shut up, I said.
At least kill the guitar.

Rick Riordan

#93. I'm not a guitar collector. I own some guitars because I play.

Robin Zander

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

Robin Trower

#95. Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow your guitar and ring the horn. Hate mathematics, and love eddies. Creation is a bird without a flight plan, that will never fly in a straight line.

Violeta Parra

#96. Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'

Angus Young

#97. You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

Stephen King

#98. If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so you can tune your guitar, and just learn how to play along with your records. And it's great to be able to play along with another musician. That is like trial by fire.

Joan Jett

#99. I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.

Dave Pirner

#100. I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

Wes Montgomery