Quotes About Play Guitar

#1. Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't *you* want to play guitar?

Joe Satriani

#2. I love to sing, but I'm just terrible. I play guitar, and I play enough where I can play most country stuff, and I'll sing when it's just me.

Justin Deeley

#3. Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

George Harrison

#4. My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.

Jason Aldean

#5. I have way too many hobbies. I play guitar, and my buddies and I record music in a studio in my house. I have a couple of vintage Jeeps I'm always working on, fixing up. And I ride horses - I grew up on a horse ranch - and play basketball. I need to cut back on my hobbies so I can work more.

Riley Smith

#6. There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.

Jason Reeves

#7. I like the sound of a Silvertone amp for myself. It's kind of cleaner guitar sounds when necessary, maybe a little less metal-sounding. But it really doesn't matter what amp I play through; it's really the way I voice chords and play guitar, how I strike the strings.

Brian Bell

#8. What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting ... I wanted to be part of it.

Alan Licht

#9. Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

Jackson Browne

#10. I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.

Mandy Moore

#11. The cities are full of women falling for the cool loser: the man trafficking in "edgy" so women cut him slack in his more loathsome behaviors. Christ, I know so many, it's sad. Please accept my flaws (and pay my rent) because I can play guitar! Badly.

Greg Gutfeld

#12. I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

Nolan Sotillo

#13. I don't know what it would be like to actually play guitar. I've toured with a lot of comedians and it's never been like it is for a rock band.

Eugene Mirman

#14. My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

Gavin DeGraw

#15. My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

B.B. King

#16. In my home, I listen to music; I play music: I play guitar and I play ukelele. And I swim and I ride a bike and I do all the things that everybody else does.

Charles Dance

#17. I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it was a music college and we had to take instrument classes there - so I think guitar playing and guitar sounds have always been an influence.

Christian Fennesz

#18. 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.

Larry Mullen Jr.

#19. I am musical. I play guitar.

Matt Ryan

#20. I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

John Wozniak

#21. When you play guitar and strum, you're using biceps and triceps to move up and down. I realized you could just turn your wrist, your forearm, using smaller muscles in your arm that are much more efficient and much quicker.

Jake Shimabukuro

#22. I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

Alexis Korner

#23. 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.

#24. 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

#25. That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.

Tom Araya

#26. I guess anybody who plays can say that they play guitar, but if you want to be a guitarist, you've got to practice all the time and you've got to get good at it. It's more than just having one and playing it.

Jake Pitts

#27. I think if you really put your mind to something you can do it. Five and a half years ago I couldn't stand on stage and play guitar. I didn't have enough talent as a kid to play guitar. I started really late. I hired a guitar teacher when I was in Nashville and I applied myself and stayed focused.

Jimmy Wayne

#28. 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

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

Gregory Harrison

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off.

Liz Phair

#34. I think when I first started discovering I could write songs, I was so naive. And it was after I got broken up with and had my heart sliced up into a bunch of little pieces that I was like, "I'm going to say this." I didn't even know how to play guitar.

Gwen Stefani

#35. Bass is for people who can't play guitar

Eddie Van Halen

#36. I play guitar ... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

Billy Unger

#37. I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.

James Vincent McMorrow

#38. My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason ... but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.

David Pajo

#39. All my kids play guitar, sing, and dabble with writing.

Patti Scialfa

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

Graham Coxon

#41. I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

Ronnie Milsap

#42. I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Joan Baez

#43. Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.

Oscar Isaac

#44. To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.

Scott Ian

#45. I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

Jensen Ackles

#46. I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.

Noel Gallagher

#47. 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.

Andy Gibb

#48. 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.

Kirk Hammett

#49. When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing guitar has given me such a wonderful life, and I'm grateful for it.

Alex Lifeson

#50. I can play 'Guitar Hero,' most of the songs on Medium and some of the songs on Hard. No Expert.

Ryan Hansen

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

Stephen Dorff

#52. At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard.

Morton Feldman

#53. I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

Joaquin Phoenix

#54. I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

James Vincent McMorrow

#55. I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

Maia Mitchell

#56. As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.

Daron Malakian

#57. I play guitar because it lets me dream out loud.

Michael Hedges

#58. With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

Jeff Ament

#59. My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

Jim Sullivan

#60. My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

Jeremy London

#61. I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar.

Joan Jett

#62. 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.

Peter Frampton

#63. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.

Hal Sparks

#64. All I do is sit at home and play guitar. That's seriously what I do.

Taylor Momsen

#65. I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

Teena Marie

#66. I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

Gustavo Santaolalla

#67. Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

Tommy Rettig

#68. In high school, I used to teach guitar and fix computers by the hour. I was looking for some way to make some cash, so I actually learned how to play guitar in order to try to teach it.

Jon Oringer

#69. Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Zakk Wylde

#70. I can't do anything but play guitar.

Tommy Bolin

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

Dane Cook

#72. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

Lou Reed

#73. I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

Minnie Driver

#74. If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

Cliff Richard

#75. When I try to relax, it's more Swedish rock, softer music, and I go out and do fun stuff. I play guitar, but it doesn't matter really what it is - just something that keeps you away from hockey.

Henrik Lundqvist

#76. My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

Merle Haggard

#77. My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.

Joe Perry

#78. And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won't be a nothing anymore ...

Thom Yorke

#79. Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they're nice little guys who are usually in college, and they're kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.

Alex Chilton

#80. My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

Oscar Isaac

#81. In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.

Stuart Townsend

#82. Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

Cat Stevens

#83. I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

Madeleine Peyroux

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

Alison Mosshart

#85. Dad said that the guy who can play guitar is going to be the life of the party. He's confusing life with death.

David Sedaris

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. 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

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

Kaitlyn Dever

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

John Lennon

#93. 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

#94. He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

David Bowie

#95. Slash was already in a league of his own and watching him play guitar was a "holy shit" moment.

Duff McKagan

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

Dustin Diamond

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

Harry Dean Stanton

#98. I sing a bit and play guitar.

Jesse Metcalfe

#99. I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

Tina Weymouth

#100. 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