Guitar Quotes
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I think the furthest I ever got was Guitar Hero. If I could start a band like that, I think I could do it.
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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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Never having thought of writing for the guitar, I asked Julian Bream for a chart which would explain what the guitar could do. I managed to write some rather pretty pieces for him, except that the first six notes of the first piece all need to be played on open strings. So when he begins to play the audience will probably think he's tuning the bloody thing up!
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If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.
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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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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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When my parents gave me that first guitar, I became totally obsessed. I would stay in my room all the time with it, and my parents were concerned.
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If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.
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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.
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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 can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience.
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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.
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When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.
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With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.
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From a guitar player's point of view it's generally harder writing parts to songs than finding a part to base a song on.
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I've really gotten over pedals. I can't keep up with this craze of boutique pedals that make you sound like everything but your guitar. I can't get my head around it.
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I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.
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I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.
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It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.
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I've told older friends to pick up the guitar because it's a great way to express yourself. It's not all about making money: it's about creating art and working with other people. It's a journey, and it's a really fun thing to do.
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What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
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Over the years, I've had to learn to play. For example, when 'Lennon' was on Broadway, I learned my way around the guitar chords because originally we were all going to play the instruments without a band.
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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.
