Guitar Quotes
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
A man can never have too many pairs of sunglasses or too many guitars.
Richie Sambora Bon Jovi
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I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.
Cameron Monaghan -
Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off.
Alexander David Turner Arctic Monkeys -
It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I had a compulsion to do it. I just had to in a way that I can't really explain.
Bill Orcutt -
Although I've never been into doing guitar solos. There's something very uncool about them.
Matt Bellamy Muse -
I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.
Robin Trower Procol Harum -
I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.
Yngwie Johan Malmsteen Alcatrazz
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When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
I'm not a household name; I'm just a household name to guitar freaks.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion -
Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.
Dan Hill -
I was playing guitar before I heard The Beatles, but as I got older and listened to their tunes I realized they were amazing. They inspire me more now than they did when I was a kid and are still the greatest.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!
Hal Sparks -
My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.
Gavin DeGraw
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The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.
Taylor Hanson Hanson -
The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz -
A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'
Carlos Santana Santana -
I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'
Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC -
That's the thing about the blues: It's one thing to hit a note on a guitar. To make it matter is something else altogether.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion -
It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.
Wesley Borland Big Dumb Face
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There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song.
Merle Haggard -
[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.
T Bone Burnett -
I have a good time doing 'Give Me Back My Man.' Keith Strickland can really fly on the guitar.
Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s -
I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.
Paul McCartney The Beatles