Guitar Quotes

• I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Sing
  • Instrument
  • Perform

• The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Sound
  • Range
  • Hendrix

• From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Guitar
  • Experiments
  • Electrical

• I've always had to do things my way; I play guitar my way; I've taken myself to the edges of life my way; I've gotten clean my way; And I'm still here. Whether or not I deserve to be is another story.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Life
  • Guitar
  • My Way

• 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
  • People
  • Men
  • School

• Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!

  

  Big Bill Broonzy
  • Happy
  • Wife
  • Three

• 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
  • Music
  • Power
  • Guitar

• I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the side hairdos are not metal no matter what distortion pedal they have for their guitars.

  

  Chris Reifert Autopsy
  • Band
  • Sentences
  • Metals

• About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Guitar
  • I Know
  • Chords

• Although I've never been into doing guitar solos. There's something very uncool about them.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Guitar
  • Uncool
  • Solos

• 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
  • Remember
  • Play
  • Church

• I kind of just want to get to know people and I have a genuine interest in people that listen to my music. I've just always felt like that. I think it's from the days of playing guitar to a few people and being very conversational and very intimate and I've always wanted to keep that vibe.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• 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
  • Guitar
  • Instrument
  • Attached

• I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Player
  • Planet
  • Practicing

• Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • Stage
  • Guitar
  • Elvis

• Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing - I'll mess around with echo and other effects, just turn everything up and make it as crazy as can be, and it winds up taking me somewhere. I've found so many guitar parts from echo. It's limitless.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Guitar
  • Winds
  • Echo

• My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Up
  • Want
  • Me

• When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Guitar
  • Vogue
  • Sessions

• You’re not going to suck.’’ ‘‘Not at the guitar, anyway,’’ Shane said, deadpan. Claire punched him in the arm. ‘‘Ow.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Guitar
  • Arm
  • Deadpan

• I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar.

  

  Jemaine Clement
  • Guitar
  • Porch

• 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
  • Knowledge
  • Focus
  • Guitar

• Hearing your voice and your instrument kind of breathe in the room, it affects the way you perform the songs. For instance, if you have that reverb, you can give the songs a little more space. You can play them a little slower or you can play less of the guitar part and just let it open up, which I really love. It's so nice to play a listening room, because the audience feels a certain way too.

  

  Denison Witmer
  • Space
  • Listening
  • Certain

• Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

  

  Mick Ralphs
  • Certain
  • Piano
  • Expansive

• Kurt Cobain, from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing...

  

  Brett Morgen
  • Guitar
  • Kurt Cobain
  • Paintbrush

1

...

8

9

10

11

12

...

29

previous

next