Guitar Quotes · Page 38

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

— Nikki Jean

I'm a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.

— J. J. Cale

I taught myself until I was about 16. And then I studied classical guitar with some teachers.

— Jose Feliciano

I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.

— Phoebe Bridgers

If I ever do meet John Mayer and we end up in the studio, hopefully he'll bring the guitar, and I'll make…

— Mustard

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

— Andy Summers

As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain…

— Les Paul

I feel like if it's a good song on a guitar, it's a good song no matter what.

— Astrid S

We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might…

— Pat Mastelotto

It's just for some reason I've got just as many fans that only like me when I'm yelling or being funny or…

— Butch Walker

I used a '57 Les Paul on one track, 'These Walls', which features Alam Khan on sarod. I tuned it way down…

— Derek Trucks

We normally use Peavey amplifiers, and I use an ESP guitar with two Boss pedals: a flanger and a big wah pedal.…

— Max Cavalera

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing…

— Steven Wright

I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even…

— Tig Notaro

I've always liked the electric guitar better. Even though the acoustic can be a very sexy and mysterious instrument, I can go…

— Jeff Buckley

Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos.…

— Bruce Springsteen

It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,…

— Stevie Nicks

Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks…

— Steve Lawson

I just think that the question of women in rock or women playing guitar, I just think it's such a non-issue, and…

— Annie E. Clark

Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

There's people that say “It's not fair You have all that stuff.” I wasn't born with it. It was a horrible process…

— Louis C. K

In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a…

— Andrew Dost

There's no secret, but inspiration has to find you working. And that's one of the key things that I've always remembered. And…

— Justin Hayward

I picked up the guitar very late, in a very pagan way - I didn't know how to play, but I knew…

— Lou Doillon

Jackson plays a broken guitar because he’s in love with it, and doesn’t want to fix it, I think. It’s so broken.

— Nikki Reed

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

— Roger Daltrey

'Cruise Control' was the first track me and Wiz Khalifa ever did. I made the beat on that, and I played guitar…

— Mac Miller

If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.

— Joe Satriani

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way

— Dan Fogelberg

Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very…

— Patti Smith

I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.

— David Gilmour

I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes,…

— Alex Turner

I started dance class when I was a little kid, and then, when I turned 11, I started taking vocal lessons, guitar…

— Cailee Spaeny

In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.

— Dickey Betts

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

— Rokia Traore

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

— Martin Gore

We have a storage close by where I live, that's very organised. My guitar tech, Matty organised it all, labeled everything.

— John Petrucci

To play the guitar well is easy, to play the guitar poorly is difficult.

— Pepe Romero

My dad plays guitar in the church band, so it's like music as a service. He plays at old-people homes, so that's…

— Lucy Dacus

I've never liked having like a set kind of schedule of training. Even when I was doing guitar lessons, I never used…

— Dean Geyer