Guitar Quotes

• I started out in the folk music world only because of the way my songs were written and performed, with just an acoustic guitar, but I always related to the rock n' roll lifestyle.

  

  John Prine
  • World
  • Music
  • Songs

• Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.

  

  Carole King
  • Dream
  • Guitarist
  • Eric

• But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Giving
  • Guitar
  • Volume

• 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.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  Cory Arcangel
  • Complicated
  • Liked
  • Classical

• There is no way I would play guitar like a tour de force like I did in Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, phenomenal drummer, young man with his technique, but do you think he would ever have the opportunity to play like that in another band? Of course he hadn't.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Way
  • Led Zeppelin
  • John Bonham

• But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.

  

  Mike McCready Pearl Jam
  • Guitar
  • Kiss
  • Pickup

• The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Music
  • Guy

• My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Guitar
  • Fan
  • Rock And Roll

• I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and chords conventionally without having to relearn the fretboard, as one must do when playing in an open tuning.

  

  Warren Haynes The Allman Brothers Band
  • Notes
  • Slide
  • Relearn

• 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 Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Today
  • Learning
  • Project

• During overdubs, I'd pick up whatever looked interesting at the moment or whichever guitar I hadn't played yet. I like having such a broad palette to dip into.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • Played
  • Pickup
  • Overdubs

• B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • King
  • Blue
  • Genre

• I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Guitar
  • Rock Culture
  • Music Moves

• When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is pushing the boundaries, I just say, "let's step back for a minute and admit something: nothing has happened for the last 100 years." And it's okay. It's not a bad thing ... We're all working with "tools" that have been in existence for the last 100 years and there hadn't been a new "tool" for a long long time.

  

  Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
  • Long
  • Existence
  • Stuff

• About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Guitar
  • I Know
  • Chords

• I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Guitar
  • Cash
  • Acoustic

• The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.

  

  Roger McGuinn The Byrds
  • Guitar

• If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Hero
  • Guitar
  • Eddie Van Halen

• 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 Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Think
  • Band
  • First

• I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • Music
  • Style
  • Player

• It made me sick - my name's Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On my first guitar I had Boy Blue written - just pathetic. But that was as good as I got at the time.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Guitar
  • Pathetic
  • Keith Richards

• If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Sweep

• Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away, Somethin' throwed away. And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day.

  

  William Christopher Handy
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Feels

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