Guitar Quotes
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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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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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Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.
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Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.
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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’ve come to realize that the playing and the guitar/pickup combination are what you need to pay attention to when looking for that type of sound.
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I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' Dangler basslines and said, "I don't like that, do something else." The same goes for the beat and the guitars. I think that's why we were able to make four albums together.
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I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.
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My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.
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We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
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James Hetfield, I mean, the minute he plugs in his guitar and adjusts the tone knob, he comes up with the world's greatest riff.
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We're kind of an international phenomenon.
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Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.
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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.
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The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.
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It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or I'll feel a chord that will resonate and then I'll get something happening in my voice. My voice is like a car that I get into and drive but I don't know where I'm going. And I record everything. And often, I sort of get into a state, a creative state that is, where I'm just feeling around melodically, and playing things off the top of my head. Then I go back and listen to it and for the first time, hear what I just did. It's like Elvis has left the building while the thing is happening.
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I like the piano a lot better 'cause it seemed like I got a lot more instant music out of the piano than I did with the guitar.
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I'm an acoustic guitar owner - in the sense that I own them, and they sit at my house, and I never play them.
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There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it's all about.
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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
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I don't play a lot of instruments so when it comes to the song writing process I don't have a lot to do with that. A lot of times it's just acoustic guitar and a small riff that produces a song. Ultimately you want to write a song that people are going to enjoy and that you love to play, most importantly you have to write it for yourself first.
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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.
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Tonight I just need my guitar.
