Guitar Quotes
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All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.
Jon Bon Jovi -
A guitar solo in the same part of every tune - that's been done so much. I think solos shine more when you have them in specific and unexpected places.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.
Joe Satriani Chickenfoot -
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 -
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.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.
Merle Haggard -
May was so great to work with, he even took me over to Japan for some dates. It blew me away when he let me play his guitar on stage with him.
Gary Hoey
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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.
Bernie Marsden -
I still play but for some reason, I am having so much fun playing guitar and singing that I don't really miss it because I've done it for so long like twenty-something years with Motley.
Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe -
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.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz -
I definitely have a different perspective on music in general. But once I actually have a guitar in my hands, I think I disappear into the same black hole that I was disappearing into when I was 15.
Bill Orcutt -
George had taken off all ten of his fingers and tied them into a bundle with what appeared to be either his own small intestines, or a guitar string; as I walked into the room, he lovingly placed the bundle on his head.
Alan Goldsher -
Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe
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If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just like burst into a monologue. Your only exercise is when you're in prep or you're working.
Winona Ryder -
Girls..... really um nah, I always just liked the sound of an electric guitar.
Vivian Campbell Def Leppard -
I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana -
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.
John 5 LOSER -
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 -
I had been playing guitar since I was 12. When I was 16, some band had a show and needed a singer... so I did it. I sounded like pure fuckin shit, but it felt natural... so I stuck at it.
Jason "Gong" Jones AM Conspiracy
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I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.
Tommy Bolin -
I had a guitar sitting around, and it just happened to have four strings on it, and I would sit around watching TV and playing it. I ended up writing bunches of songs around four strings.
Bill Orcutt -
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.
Edwyn Collins -
When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.
Joe Satriani Chickenfoot