Guitar Quotes

• Part of me likes a more ragged, jagged guitar sound or performance, but our work might not have been as innovative had we followed in the footsteps of what came before. We were very proud of what we had hit on.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Proud
  • Performance
  • Jagged

• 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 started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Playing
  • Guitar
  • Drums

• 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

• 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

• It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Musicians

• 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

• 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

• You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Done
  • Think
  • Me

• 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

• I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Good
  • Hero
  • Guitar

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

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Guitar
  • Uncool
  • Solos

• I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love singing. I did have a career as little 10-year-old George Benson. I made my first record as a vocalist, but I've been playing guitar since I was 9.

  

  George Benson
  • Time
  • She
  • Mother

• 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'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.

  

  Yngwie Johan Malmsteen Alcatrazz
  • Guitar

• 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

• For me, the guitar was just a tool to make songs. I started when I was 10 - I learned what I had to learn to get my ideas across. I always felt I was a weak guitar player, but now I realize with the finger-picking stuff, I actually know how to do what I do with my songs, but I couldn't step in and be an overall guitar player. But my guitar playing has always been driven by the need to write songs.

  

  Anna Ternheim
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Guitar

• I love melody, and that's what I love about pop music. The words can become what they are through a special melody. I learned to play guitar by myself, and writing songs came with playing guitar, so the writing isn't one part and the music something else.

  

  Anna Ternheim
  • Playing
  • Guitar
  • Melody

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

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Guitar
  • Vogue
  • Sessions

• 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
  • Amazing
  • Playing
  • The Beatles

• There were a lot of different styles in the house - Motown, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, jazz - and my dad played flamenco guitar. Soon I realized that bass was what was really grooving me.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Guitar
  • Bass
  • Styles

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

  

  Richie Sambora Bon Jovi
  • Men
  • Sunglasses
  • Pairs

• 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

• 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

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