Guitar Quotes

• I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before. Instead of using the pick the chimp was banging the neck and tapping it with its fingers. I knew the chimp was on to something so I practiced this new technique in my room for hours until I'd perfected it.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Playing
  • Acoustic
  • Zoo

• I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Guitar

• I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Mind
  • Band
  • Rock

• I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Style
  • Guitar
  • Big

• I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Guitar
  • Articulate
  • Thickness

• Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.

  

  Eino Matti "Eicca" Toppinen Apocalyptica
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Way

• Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Pretty
  • Dad
  • Cool

• It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Fun
  • Rest
  • Guitar

• Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • Time
  • Day

• I have no fear of death, so I don't think about it. I love the adrenalin kick that danger brings. Others get their kicks bungee jumping from tall buildings. I'm very, very competitive. I want to be the best at everything I do. It's not driving - it's everything - it might be playing my guitar, I try to be the best at it as I possibly can.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Driving

• Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Language
  • Sound
  • Guitar

• I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Try

• I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.

  

  Kaki King
  • You
  • Learn
  • Guitar

• I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Guitar
  • Awesome

• I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

  

  Ernie Isley The Isley Brothers
  • Guitar
  • Self-Taught

• That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Why
  • Business

• I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • Wife
  • Guitar
  • Drums

• If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

  

  B. B. King
  • Me
  • Single
  • Woman

• I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Play
  • Blow
  • Arm

• When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Spiritual
  • Intellectual
  • Extremes

• A man can never have too many pairs of sunglasses or too many guitars.

  

  Richie Sambora Bon Jovi
  • Men
  • Sunglasses
  • Pairs

• I'm actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I've had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Time
  • Practice
  • Better

• The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.

  

  Kaki King
  • Done
  • Know
  • Meaning

• I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Up
  • Writing
  • House

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