Guitar Quotes · Page 33

When I do find myself having downtime, I just put my guitar in my hands.

— Ruston Kelly

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad…

— David Russell

I can play anything - piano, drums, guitar, harp - I can even play a trumpet through another trumpet.

— Ross Lynch

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

— Billy Corgan

I would take my guitar to college and sit for hours in the hills humming to myself.

— Mohit Chauhan

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time

— Lita Ford

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else…

— Billy Corgan

I'm still constantly learning and that's what keeps me excited about the guitar.

— Gary Hoey

I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for…

— Mac DeMarco

I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing,…

— Ric Ocasek

I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel…

— Gary Clark, Jr

When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses,…

— Jordan Knight

When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing guitar has…

— Alex Lifeson

I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They…

— Steve Young

My parents were encouraging me to write music at 9 years old, or they were encouraging me to pick and play my…

— Lainey Wilson

I didn't know how to play guitar until I was 21, but from the moment I was good enough on guitar to…

— Luke Combs

I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully…

— Ian Anderson

One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently…

— Keith Richards

The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually…

— B. B. King

“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture,…

— Roman Payne

Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away;…

— John Lennon

Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is…

— Les Paul

When my father was, you know, a very big artist in the 1970s and then later up through the '80s. And then…

— John Carter Cash

I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of a Sears, Roebuck catalog. The…

— Gene Autry

You can't just plug your guitar in your computer and make it sound like an old record.

— Frank Dukes

I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.

— Joe Bonamassa

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.

— Tim Hudson

I've played guitar in so many different styles, and I want to revisit them all.

— Jimmy Page

It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I'm always trying to learn something new or trying to be…

— Lzzy Hale

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

— Anonymous

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

— Rickey Medlocke

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

— Dave Mustaine

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

— Krist Novoselic

It's not odd to be a female in a band anymore. It's not odd to be a girl carrying a guitar case…

— Nita Strauss

Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was…

— Donald Dunn

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living

— Lyle Lovett

If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low,…

— Lou Barlow

Mickey Gee will be remembered for his guitar playing by the public and true fellow musicians.

— Shakin' Stevens

The day I stop learning and I don't try to make myself better on the guitar, that's the day I hang it…

— Jose Feliciano

I listen to other people's stuff and, more and more, you realise how much is layered and how many different guitar parts…

— Ben Howard