Guitar Quotes · Page 29

I'm still like an excited kid playing guitar in front of the bedroom mirror.

— James Bay

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.

— Brandy Clark

I first picked up a guitar at seven after watching Dad play at backyard barbecues.

— Cody Simpson

Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of…

— Matt Papa

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I…

— Barry Mann

I like playing guitar I don't like talking about it. I like writing riffs, I don't like explaining them.

— Jeff Hanneman

I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist.

— J. K. Rowling

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

— Colin Greenwood

At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that…

— Gregg Allman

I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug…

— Daniel Ek

I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year…

— Yuna

I wanted to be a guitar player and musician so badly, and I prayed to get this the very few times I…

— John 5

You can be in the band, you can go buy your own guitar strings at Guitar Center, you can go and do…

— Nita Strauss

I saw 'Purple Rain' in the summer of '84, and, 'Spinal Tap' notwithstanding, it's the greatest rock & roll film of all…

— Tom Morello

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from…

— Noel Gallagher

It couldn't have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clarinet, went to the high school for…

— Christopher Guest

When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to…

— Brendon Urie

I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I…

— Sufjan Stevens

When I produce someone's record I have to remember it's their record..no matter what I bring to it..er, sometimes that's not too…

— Robin Guthrie

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it.…

— Jon Pardi

I don't collect the way other people do. Some people collect rare guitars, like, 'I have a '54 Strat worth $50,000.' And…

— David Crosby

My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a…

— Gloria Estefan

I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to…

— Danny Jacob

Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel…

— Steve Stockman

I love Vetements, but I tend not to wear on stage 'cause the sleeves are too long and I can't play the…

— Matty Healy

I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went…

— Colin Hanks

You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be…

— Hans Zimmer

We've got an electric organ, a sax, drums, guitar and bass guitar. We sound less like the Beatles than most of the…

— Dave Clark

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

— Joey Santiago

Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.

— Ted Nugent

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something…

— Kenny Chesney

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

— Waylon Jennings

I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing…

— Bill Callahan

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his…

— Joe Satriani

Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.

— Kevin Parker

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for…

— Adam Ant

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

— Darren Criss

For one reason or another, a lot of guys wind up with a guitar that isn't really right for them.

— Jim Root

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

— Pele

Different guitar players really inspired me to want to learn how to sing on the guitar.

— Susan Tedeschi