Guitar Quotes · Page 34

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing…

— Don Johnson

If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson

— Greg Brown

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

— Annie E. Clark

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking…

— B. B. King

Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.

— Horace Panter

The first guitar I ever owned was a Kay SG copy. That cost like $35. Man, that was a terrible guitar.

— John Rzeznik

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

— Ace Frehley

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

— Adrian Belew

Every other guitar player was just copying other guitarists. From the time I was 13 up until 18, I practiced at least…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before:…

— B. B. King

“The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitar’s strings purred with blues…

— Brenda Sutton Rose

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people.…

— Mandy Moore

I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to…

— Dave Matthews

I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been…

— Pete Townshend

I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places…

— B. B. King

The one thing that Hendrix had that is unique among extraordinary guitar players is he had songs that were on the radio.…

— Tom Morello

When I'm at home or in the studio, I have a 1963 Martin. It's a D-28, and I love that guitar. I…

— Charlie Worsham

I'm coming into places with some people who just want to hear what I did before, with some people who want to…

— Beth Orton

I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more…

— Kesha

When I was about 14, I got on the bus, and my sister's friend's brother handed me a burnt CD that said…

— Calum Hood

I'm taking drama classes, they say I'm a natural actress. I think it's just because I talk a lot. I'm also learning…

— Lindsay Pagano

“He chose a guitar from one of the oak cabinets. Picking it with his calloused fingers, he squeezed his eyes shut and…

— Brenda Sutton Rose

I don't think I understood guitar rock as well as I probably should have. I don't think I understood bands like Led…

— Pete Wentz

I tend to prefer the band thing. I think playing solo is good for about 45 minutes. I remember when I was…

— Bill Mallonee

I sing and play guitar, but songwriting is how I pay my rent. And so I didn't really need a lot of…

— J. J. Cale

It's insane for me to say this, but I've never been in a room with anyone that's more talented on the electric…

— Tim Commerford

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

— Bill Nighy

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

— Brad Paisley

I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production.

— Luis Fonsi

'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me…

— Mark Salling

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like…

— Matt Tong

I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.

— Laurent Brancowitz

I don't know how it got around that I play a lot of instruments. I really don't. I play the guitar and…

— Marty Stuart

Yeah, my very first teacher when I was 6 was a big influence, because it was so boring that I quit guitar.

— Paul Gilbert

I'm an acoustic guitar owner - in the sense that I own them, and they sit at my house, and I never…

— Joe Bonamassa

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to…

— Billy Bragg

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

— Keith Richards

In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to…

— Billy Boyd

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

— Alvin Lee

What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.

— Faye Kellerman