Guitar Quotes
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I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.
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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.
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I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.
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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.
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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.
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My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.
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Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.
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A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.
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I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.
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But the day that I die will be the day that I shut my mouth and put down my guitar.
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Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.
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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ... I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened. ... I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. ... I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.
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Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.
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I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
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It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.
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A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.
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I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!
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It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.
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George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
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Tonight I just need my guitar.
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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.
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I worked with George Harrison - who was the reason I started playing guitar.
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I bought me a guitar about a year ago, learned how to play in a day or so.
