Guitar Quotes

• One of the signature things about Heart was the acoustic guitar in a rock format, which you didn't hear that often.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Heart
  • Things
  • Rock format

• 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

• 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

• I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Guitar
  • Rhythm
  • Strum

• 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

• When I played out it was just me and the guitar but now it’s just messing with the full band for the longest time, kind of putting the show together and trying to make a live show that is worth people coming to and spending their money on.

  

  Jordan Davis
  • Band
  • Show
  • Guitar

• 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

• I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Guitar
  • Boats
  • Beer-Holder

• Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Guitar
  • User-friendly
  • Super-expensive

• Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Journey
  • Playing
  • Guitar

• In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Used
  • Reputation
  • Fingers

• I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Play
  • Band
  • Guitar

• I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

  

  Michelle Branch
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Minutes

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

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Write
  • Guitar
  • Keyboards

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

  

  Chris Matthews
  • King
  • Blue
  • Genre

• When I wrote the first album I had never played live before, and I'd never been on tour. So that was really just me and my guitar.

  

  Amy Macdonald
  • Guitar
  • Album
  • Tour

• I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.

  

  Kim Thayil Soundgarden
  • Way
  • Guitar
  • Noises

• 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

• Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Player
  • Guitar

• It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Destiny
  • Guitar
  • Wood

• 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

• That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Social
  • Skills
  • Communicate

• Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.

  

  Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • Sound
  • Guitar
  • Pick

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