Guitar Quotes · Page 36

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously…

— Ziggy Marley

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop…

— Janis Ian

When Dee Dee would start singing, he would stop playing the guitar, because he couldn't sing and play at the same time.

— Joey Ramone

Segovia was a Spaniard and it seemed natural that he should play the guitar.

— Julian Bream

It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

— M. Ward

When you're playing guitar, it's the tiny little nuances that make the difference. For me, obviously, tunings is a huge one.

— Ben Howard

My first real real guitar I had was a Charvel, model 1 and that was when I was 15, I think, I got that.

— Jim Root

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

— Jeff Lynne

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just…

— Graham Parker

Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years…

— Bootsy Collins

Bottom line, Eliza— you’re my home and my family, and I don’t want to lose you. I could lose everything else, and…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

Sometimes I feel like I'm taking on a role when I'm writing a song, and it doesn't always have to be true.…

— Mitchel Musso

You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands…

— James Vincent McMorrow

From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do.…

— Jimmy Page

I feel really fortunate that, in playing guitar and surfing, I've found two things that mean so much to me, and which…

— Kirk Hammett

I was a fan of the group. I thought they were great - loved The Eagles - but I thought that their…

— Joe Walsh

This year's Hippiefest tour is truly a 'Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour' - a landmark, historic, musical celebration of which my band…

— Edgar Winter

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want…

— Richard Fleeshman

For an electric guitarist to solo effectively on an acoustic guitar you need to develop tricks to avoid the expectation of sustain…

— Pete Townshend

I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were…

— Tig Notaro

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a…

— Jimmy Page

One thing I loved about New Zealand was the indoor/outdoor lifestyle of the place. I remember going from Xboxing, jamming out on…

— Gabriel Mann

I came to work one day, and Ricky was playing music on his guitar, just snickering. He played me the riff that…

— Cindy Wilson

Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily…

— Lee Ritenour

I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other things I could…

— Kirk Hammett

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

— Colin Hanks

I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a…

— James Murphy

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

— J Mascis

Bob Dylan is great. Ive been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a…

— Jake Bugg

A man playing guitar, singing for us all. Will you help him change the world? Can you dig it? Yes, I can.

— Chicago (Band

I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.

— James Vincent McMorrow

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I…

— Mick Mars

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

— Janis Ian

I'd love to be able to draw or play guitar or dance. All three at the same time - that's the talent…

— Owen King

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

— Frank Zappa

My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like…

— Amber Tamblyn

The guitar l learned on was probably worth $4 or something, but it was priceless to me. It meant so much.

— John McLaughlin

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I…

— Maia Mitchell

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

— Oscar de la Renta

The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

— Annie Dillard