Guitar Quotes · Page 37

While I was playing football in the U.S., I learnt to play the guitar, and I'm picking it up again now.

— Alex Scott

That is the music that I have always wanted to play: real, genuine guitar music.

— Chris Rea

When I first started playing guitar, so many people told me I couldn't do this or couldn't do that. But I kept…

— Shawn Mendes

Music and guitar are my favorite things, so it's fun to get together with other people who share the passion and talk…

— Paul Gilbert

Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.

— Gary Gulman

Jeff and Mike had taken drum lessons at a young age. When the Beatles came out in '64, we all wanted to…

— Steve Porcaro

I carry my finger pick around all the time now, because it reminds me that I want to keep playing guitar.

— Monica Barbaro

I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.

— Jay Watson

Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of…

— Joe Satriani

I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This…

— Johnny Depp

I always feel like the less I think of stage presence, the better, because then I have to face the fact that…

— J. Robbins

Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and…

— Lisa Loeb

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar…

— Andres Segovia

My own style on the guitar grew out of my experience with the lute. I suppose some people might say I play…

— Julian Bream

I'm playing a D-28 Martin that I've had about 20 years or so. I've got a '51 Martin and I thought I…

— Steve Young

I look upon meself as... You take a band that's made up of arms, legs, bodies... I happen to be the piece…

— Phil Lynott

Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt…

— Lauren Oliver

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of…

— James Taylor

You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to…

— Ellie Goulding

When you play guitar you are drawing a frame around a moment and saying to the listener, 'Here is how I want…

— Philip Toshio Sudo

When I saw Buddy Holly play in 1958, I was there looking for girls. At that age, you want to get laid.…

— Motorhead

There once was a girl who found herself dead. She peered over the ledge of heaven and saw that back on earth…

— Jandy Nelson

One day, I was just fingering around on the keys of a Fender Rhodes piano, and I came up with this little…

— Brian Fallon

Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot…

— Anthony Bourdain

I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll…

— Indra Nooyi

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

— Mark Knopfler

I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.

— Chrissie Hynde

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

— Martin Gore

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

— Andres Segovia

Wanting to play the guitar was neither a wild dream nor a realistic ambition. It was simply inevitable.

— Julian Bream

I studied classical guitar in school, and that type of stuff has led to writing for Kronos.

— Bryce Dessner

I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.

— Philip Selway

I came to NAMM once and saw this guitar that self-tuned, and I thought, 'Wow, this is the future!' And I've never…

— Finneas

The only way you can get Scotty Moore's tone is with a big hollowbody guitar.

— Jeff Beck

I'm not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don't I? That is my characteristic, and it's my…

— Jimmy Page

I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good…

— Dan Bejar

The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do, so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what…

— Robin Trower

The only thing I don't write is the guitar solos, but even then I might suggest one or two things.

— Steve Harris

Music's been a huge passion of mine since I was really young. I started playing guitar when I was thirteen.

— Lewis Hamilton