Guitar Quotes
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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.
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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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My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.
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I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.
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I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.
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If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody playing the guitar or piano or a horn arrangement where you can hear the breath. You can almost smell the studio while listening to the music. For me, that's what moves me emotionally, that's what I came from. I think that's always going to work best for me.
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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.
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I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
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The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.
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I love staying at home and not seeing a guitar for ten days... but then I love that feeling of picking it up again.
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I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.
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I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
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I'm a giutar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
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The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.
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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.
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When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.
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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.
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I never wanted to play guitar when I was younger. I wanted to be a drummer because everybody plays guitar, and I didn't want to do what everybody else wanted to do.
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I went through a period in my life where I didn't have money to buy ramen noodles and peanut butter and jelly, but I also needed to go to the guitar store and buy strings and picks and polish and rags. I couldn't live with myself if I didn't play guitar.
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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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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.
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It is definitely more rock oriented – Chester comes up with the "kernel" that becomes the songs on his acoustic guitar – so they tend to turn out a bit more guitar rock. They are more riff/vocal focused.
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My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.
