Rock Guitarist Quotes

#1. Try to imagine the calamity of that: Zack, age twenty-eight, with no management experience, gets training from Dave, a weekend rock guitarist, on how to apply a set of fundamentally unsound psychological principles as a way to manipulate the people who report to him.

Dan Lyons

#2. Ink helps you float when emotions drown you.

Ashwini Dodani

#3. Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Prayer is that which conveys a message to God, who is either known or knowing, more or less by definition. Poetry is that which conveys a message to a stranger.

G.C. Waldrep III

#5. I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

Eddie Van Halen

#6. Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world.

Aldous Huxley

#7. I was in Italy in 1992 working on magazine articles when I got a call from the Italian travel commission. They asked, would I mind being an escort for an older woman? I told them I don't do that kind of work, but then they said it was Julia Child, and I said I'd be right there.

Bob Spitz

#8. The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization

Herbert Marcuse

#9. Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

John Dryden

#10. When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.

Anthony De Mello

#11. Love happens sublimely, serenely and accidentally! It will happen when you least expect it to!

Avijeet Das

#12. A storm was brewing. The wind has picked up and a mass of purple clouds was coming in from the West. It felt good to have my hair whipping around my head. I thought it might feel good to have hail beat down on me. Sometimes storms outside are the only relief for storms inside ...

Elizabeth Chandler

#13. The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Jean-Henri Fabre

#14. Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression. I hate when I feel like I'm the lead guitarist in a rock band. We all gotta be going somewhere strong together, you know?

David First

#15. Billy Rankin is a true Glasgow rock legend. He has everything going for him: he's a brilliant guitarist, he writes killer songs, he's worked with the best, toured the world and he is one handsome-looking chap. I know all of this because Billy told me.

Robert Fields

#16. We are held back by too much caution. We are timid about venturing. We are not bold enough. And so we die before we reach middle age, although we will not be lowered into the ground until we pass three score and ten.

Og Mandino

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

Ian McEwan

#18. I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

B.B. King

#19. Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to.

Philip Guston

#20. Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try telling nothing but the truth.

David Mitchell