Guitar Quotes
-
I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
-
Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.
-
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.
-
I bought me a guitar about a year ago, learned how to play in a day or so.
-
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.
-
But the day that I die will be the day that I shut my mouth and put down my guitar.
-
I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.
-
Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello.
-
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'.
-
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.
-
I worked with George Harrison - who was the reason I started playing guitar.
-
As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.
-
I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.
-
A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.
-
Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.
-
One of the signature things about Heart was the acoustic guitar in a rock format, which you didn't hear that often.
-
I started playing piano and guitar when I was in elementary school, and then I was finally like, 'I want to sing.' So I started taking voice lessons and decided I wanted to go to an art school and take music seriously.
-
We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
-
I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!
-
Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.
-
The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my aspirations. The Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch came out in 1977 and it had a breakdown of the recording costs, then you saw Pete Shelley playing a broken guitar from Woolworths. We already had an idea of the kind of music we wanted to do, but punk showed us a way to do it.
-
In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.
-
I don't recall what the first record I bought was, but I definitely remember hearing Creedence's 'Born on the Bayou' and going out and buying it. The guitar and drums in that band were really good. I loved the words to the title track, and Fogerty's voice sounded just great.
-
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.
