Guitar Quotes

• My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.

  

  David Pajo
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Reason

• 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!

  

  William Walton
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Audience

• I started playing piano and guitar when I was in elementary school, and then I was finally like, 'I want to sing.' So I started taking voice lessons and decided I wanted to go to an art school and take music seriously.

  

  Ravyn Lenae
  • Lessons
  • Started
  • Elementary

• I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

  

  Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
  • Stage
  • Guitar
  • Mirrors

• 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

• Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.

  

  Eyvind Kang
  • Creativity
  • Songs
  • Musicians

• Today, somewhere in America, there's a kid who's got a laptop and a guitar and a couple of his friends he's putting together to play drums and bass, who's gonna change the way we say things, the way that we dress, the way we view things, the music we hear, everything.

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Change

• 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
  • Guitar
  • Stuck
  • Shit

• No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Play
  • Learn
  • Guitar

• 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
  • Guitar
  • Fingers
  • Bundles

• When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

  

  Michael Storm
  • Moved
  • Rage
  • Banjos

• 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
  • Stage
  • Guitar
  • Japan

• 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
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Started

• 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
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Guitar

• Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

  

  Eugene Chadbourne
  • Home
  • Dog
  • Imagine

• I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Looks
  • Cutting
  • Tennis

• That's always attractive to me, to work with music whose form is a big question mark. Even many of my favorite bands growing up, when I was just a kid learning to play drums and guitar and everything, were bands like Pink Floyd, where the arrangement, the number of bars in each section is unconventional and often lopsided, and there will be small little instrumental interludes and that sort of thing. So those odd forms, as well as dark content, are the things that I think are continuous through all the type of projects that I've been attracted to.

  

  Charlie Clouser
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Dark

• When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • Pieces
  • Melody
  • Storytelling

• But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Picks

• I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart.

  

  Eddie Kirkland
  • Love
  • Guitar
  • My Heart

• 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
  • Guitar
  • Burn

• 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

• hen I was starting my journey as a young guitar player, I was listening to The Beatles, the Stones, and all the British invasion bands, Top 40, Motown, and all the great music of the '60s. Then the alien ship landed, and life changed again forever... Jimi Hendrix.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Player
  • Journey
  • Guitar

• I drive my family nuts because when I watch something on TV, I'm likely to watch it with a bass guitar. But I don't plug it in!

  

  Steve Capus
  • Television
  • Guitar
  • Watch

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