Guitar Quotes
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I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.
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As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it a style.
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Jimi Hendrix came on TV on this documentary and it was this African-American soulful black guy, playing an electric guitar, which I'd just started. And it just blew my head off. I had like an afro at the time, too. It was a bit all over the place. And it wasn't a thing to have an afro. No, that's kind of quite old school. You're supposed to have like a neatly cut shaped up haircut.
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When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.
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Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
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I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.
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If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.
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I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.
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There's something about working in adverse conditions. It keeps it interesting. I always notice if I ever sit down with a pen and piece of paper and a guitar, and I have a beverage and an ashtray and I'm comfortable on the couch, I fall asleep.
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I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.
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I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.
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Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.
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Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum lyrics. It's not really ever been my route.
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When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.
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I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.
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I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
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I like to make my guitar sound mean.
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I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it.
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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.
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I played guitar and sang since the age of about 11. I was so lucky to go to a very cool and progressive working class rough and tough high school but still given so many opportunities to write and sing my own material.
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When I was 15 years old, my cousin and I formed a singing group called The Altaires. And, because we became the most popular singing group in the Tri-State area, the rest of the group convinced me I should play the guitar - even though I didn't own one! So what happened was, my stepfather actually made my first electric guitar for me for $23!
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A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.
