Guitar Quotes

• 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
  • Fly
  • Guitar
  • Good Time

• 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 taught myself how to play the guitar by watching videos on YouTube. Until this day, I don’t know the music notes but I do know all the chords.

  

  Junior H
  • Guitar
  • Notes
  • Chords

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Guitar
  • Vogue
  • Sessions

• My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Guitar
  • Fan
  • Rock And Roll

• I like The Smiths as well. They took a cue from The Buzzcocks. They have jangly guitars instead of distorted guitars. All the Manchester bands have a character about them. The Stone Roses and The Smiths and all that. Even if you don't like them, they have a certain original sound.

  

  Steve Diggle Buzzcocks
  • Character
  • Band
  • Sound

• 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

• No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Model

• 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

• The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.

  

  George Benson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Said

• My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing with his guitar, his electric guitar, and he tried to show me some chords, but my hands were too small.

  

  George Benson
  • Mother
  • Small
  • Player

• 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

• Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Draw

• Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.

  

  George Benson
  • Simple
  • Band
  • Gigs

• I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Stones
  • Rolling
  • Keith

• If there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Strong
  • Brain
  • Seems

• 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

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

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Guitar
  • Solos
  • Uncool

• To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Period
  • Guitar

• 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
  • Play
  • Instruments
  • Electric

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