Guitar Quotes

• When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first grader, I was gonna be a guitar picker on the 'Grand Ole Opry.' I just had it in my head that that's what I wanted to do, having no idea how it was done.

  

  Dickey Betts
  • School
  • Head
  • Asked

• I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Knowledge
  • Focus
  • Guitar

• My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Guitar
  • Cousin
  • Electric

• Kurt Cobain, from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing...

  

  Brett Morgen
  • Guitar
  • Kurt Cobain
  • Paintbrush

• We were influenced by classic country acts like Merle Haggard and George Jones and Hank Williams but also by Clapton and the Stones and all the rock acts like that. I mean, what guitar player didn't start out with 'Satisfaction'?

  

  Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn
  • Country
  • Guitar
  • Acts

• My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small.

  

  George Benson
  • Mother
  • Small
  • Player

• It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Musicians

• It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.

  

  Wesley Borland Big Dumb Face
  • Strong
  • Pleasure
  • Melody

• I remember first seeing Barney Kessel, in the 1940s, standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, in his cowboy boots, sun glasses and hipster threads, holding his guitar case man, you just knew that cat could wail!'

  

  Anita O'Day
  • Cat
  • Guitar
  • Wail

• “I taught myself how to play the guitar by watching videos on YouTube. Until this day, I don’t know the music notes but I do know all the chords.

  

  Junior H
  • Guitar
  • Notes
  • Chords

• You’re not going to suck.’’ ‘‘Not at the guitar, anyway,’’ Shane said, deadpan. Claire punched him in the arm. ‘‘Ow.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Guitar
  • Arm
  • Deadpan

• I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.

  

  Yngwie Johan Malmsteen Alcatrazz
  • Guitar

• I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.

  

  George Benson
  • Time
  • She
  • Mother

• I like The Smiths as well. They took a cue from The Buzzcocks. They have jangly guitars instead of distorted guitars. All the Manchester bands have a character about them. The Stone Roses and The Smiths and all that. Even if you don't like them, they have a certain original sound.

  

  Steve Diggle Buzzcocks
  • Character
  • Band
  • Sound

• For me, the guitar was just a tool to make songs. I started when I was 10 - I learned what I had to learn to get my ideas across. I always felt I was a weak guitar player, but now I realize with the finger-picking stuff, I actually know how to do what I do with my songs, but I couldn't step in and be an overall guitar player. But my guitar playing has always been driven by the need to write songs.

  

  Anna Ternheim
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Guitar

• I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Guitar
  • Went
  • Christmas Present

• Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Important
  • Hero
  • Singers

• The most painful thing was falling off the stage in Sydney, Australia on the last song of the set, 'Sugar.' I was bruised all over. I don't know how the guitar survived, much less me.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Stage
  • Painful
  • Falling

• A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Guitar
  • Instruments
  • Trumpet

• I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.

  

  Mike Gordon
  • Referring
  • Saxophone
  • Cymbals

• I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me, it's like...you know, some dudes like hunting, fishing, going out and playing ball in the backyard with their buddies on a rainy day. I like being out with my buddies playing rock guitar. That's what I love to do.

  

  Robby Takac Goo Goo Dolls
  • Music
  • Man
  • Playing

• Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Draw

• It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Music
  • Growing
  • Inspired

• Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Wind
  • Guitar
  • Sing

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