Guitar Quotes
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When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.
Michelle Branch
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I get up now at 5:30 in the morning. I practice the guitar for a couple of hours - I do that before I even start my day.
Steve Lukather Toto
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I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.
Michael Imperioli
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I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.
Brandy Clark
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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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
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I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
Tina Weymouth
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I get to do a lot of things I don't usually get to do with the boys. I love playing guitar and rocking out on stage, so I do a ton of that with my solo project. [Backstreet Boys] all give each other the freedom to do our own thing, which just makes the bond the five of us have stronger
Nick Carter
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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.
Jon Klein Siouxsie and the Banshees
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I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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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.
Jack White The White Stripes
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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My first memory of guitar was seeing my father play one.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.
Muddy Waters
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I can embarrass myself very easily on guitar. It's funny because people say to me I can play anything; I'm God on the guitar. But I could make a big list of everything I can't play... I'm grateful that people don't notice that.
Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
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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.
John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
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I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.
George Thorogood
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One time I said: maybe I should burn a guitar tonight. You know smash a guitar or something like that. And they said: yeah, yeah! I said: you really think I should? They said: yeah, that'd be cool. I said: well, ok.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.
Merle Haggard
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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.
Gabriel Iglesias
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For the person who wrote a review saying I am "pretending" to play the guitar,well you obviously haven't done ur research! Its REAL!!
Una Healy
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If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.
Ruston Kelly