Guitar Quotes

• My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Player

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Money
  • Anger
  • Findings

• I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.

  

  Brandy Clark
  • Music
  • Lessons
  • Instrument

• We’re a rock band and we don’t claim to be anything else but we do like to try new things. Having electronics in the sound is more to do with texture and depth, were constantly doing harmony guitar and overdubs so we’d though we should try it to that with electronics and have a more distinct type of sound.

  

  Jerry Horton Papa Roach
  • Sound
  • Rock Band
  • Overdubs

• I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

  

  Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
  • Playing
  • Guitar

• I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Guitar
  • Drums
  • Feel Better

• I want to make money playing guitar.

  

  John 5 LOSER
  • Money
  • Playing
  • Guitar

• I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Guitar
  • Sing
  • Rhythm

• When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

  

  Michelle Branch
  • Guitar
  • Having

• The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

  

  Harry Chapin
  • Guitar
  • Orchestra
  • Monophonic symphony

• My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Guitar
  • Solo
  • Elliot Randall`s

• When you first start a band all you think about and spend your time doing is writing songs, play shows, in the simplest way and the simplest formation of the band. It's about the gear, and that guitar that one day you will buy. It's a beautiful time. I'm grateful for having that time. Then life flips upside down, all of a sudden you are strapped to a rocket ship, you get a hit, then it is tough to keep grounded.

  

  Joe King The Fray
  • Band
  • Songs
  • Guitar

• I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Guitar
  • Musician
  • Aspirations

• I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

  

  Tina Weymouth
  • Play
  • Player
  • Found

• I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • School
  • Teach
  • Guitar

• One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved.

  

  George Benson
  • House
  • Light
  • Taken

• Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Song
  • Play
  • Write

• In order to be a guitar player, you have to play guitar.

  

  Joel Hoekstra
  • Player
  • Guitar

• The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Guitar
  • Compare
  • Expensive

• Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Singing
  • Feels
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Vocation
  • Composition
  • Harmonies

• I suppose I am proud of what has gone on, after all I only ever wanted to play the guitar for a living, and that is what I am still doing.

  

  Bernie Marsden
  • Proud
  • Guitar
  • Suppose

• I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Guitar
  • Harmonica

• If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Play
  • Hands
  • Guitar

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