Guitar Quotes

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

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • Band
  • Guitar
  • Faster

• 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

• Sometimes we woke up and feel like a Guitar Master, sometimes we woke up and feel like a complete fool. but that's the fun part of learning guitar.

  

  Tommy Emmanuel
  • Learning
  • Guitar
  • Master

• You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock band. So I, in a very naive and teenage way, said, "That's it. I'm going to be in a band."

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Band
  • Guitar
  • Talented

• It's wet from all the guitar players crying.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Guitar
  • Players
  • Crying

• Deep Purple, 'In Rock'. My cousin got me into it. I really dug it and that's why I started playing guitar. There's been other albums over the years, but that was the first one.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Guitar
  • Albums
  • Cousin

• I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Work
  • Guitar
  • Destroyed

• I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Guitar
  • Sing
  • Infection

• Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but a guitar and conquers the world. And we've done that again, and again, and again – Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • World
  • Done
  • Kids

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

  

  Mike McCready Pearl Jam
  • Guitar
  • Kiss
  • Pickup

• I saw this trend happening with the proliferation of guitar clinics and schools. And I was approached to do a camp in the past, but I wanted to have a good enough idea because most of them are just about jamming and learning. I decided I wanted a theme for each camp.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • School
  • Past
  • Enough

• When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression.

  

  Robby Krieger The Doors
  • Expression
  • Avenues
  • Chuck Berry

• I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Pain
  • Bridge
  • Bridges

• I'm really interested in trying to learn how to play the guitar since I've got two of them! I can kind of mess around on the piano, but I'm going to start learning how to play the guitar.

  

  Danielle Bradbery
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Play

• I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Player

• I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Write
  • Guitar
  • Keyboards

• I still like to play the guitar, but I rarely have anything to do with the music business these days. I mean, there is no music business anymore, is there?

  

  Steve Jones
  • Music
  • Business
  • Guitar

• What happens is people go, 'I want to play the guitar,' and the first thing they do is hit Google: 'How can I play this?' and the next thing you know, you've learned all these tricks, but you've never learned how to play rhythm guitar with a groove.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Play
  • Rhythm
  • Google

• The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Song
  • Rock
  • Solo

• Bass is for people who can't play guitar...

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Guitar
  • Bass

• One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Song

• I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

  

  Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
  • Guitar
  • I Knew
  • Picked Up

• In the past I experimented a bit with pedals, but it got too much. It was always in the way of making the show somehow. Too many extra things to concentrate on. But I don't think you need much more than to plug a guitar right in & just mess about with what's there, let the fingers do the work.

  

  Anders Björler At the Gates
  • Guitar
  • Concentrate
  • Extra

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