Guitar Quotes · Page 39

I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films.

— Tom Holland

I've been singing my entire life. The guitar came to me later on down the road.

— Luke Combs

I'd rather be known as a songwriter than a guitarist, although I love to play the guitar.

— Rick Nielsen

Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.

— Neil Young

My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished.

— Carrie Brownstein

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

— Colin Greenwood

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

— Johnny Winter

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

— Leonard Cohen

Look, nobody is a bigger fan of Tommy Shaw than me. The day I met him in 1975 I knew he was…

— Dennis DeYoung

Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why…

— Frank Zappa

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel,…

— Hugh Laurie

I used to take the kids in groups and, just for my own creativity, just start to play acoustic guitar and role…

— Peaches

I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real…

— Ann Powers

I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions…

— M. Ward

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun,…

— Jack Prelutsky

There's a different kind of ownership relationship with it when you've spent those hours, when you've tuned a guitar multiple times and…

— Monica Barbaro

People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry -…

— Rajneesh

The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I…

— Ian Axel

I was working with D'Mile - he's amazing! And I don't know, it was like that guitar riff was so crazy to…

— PJ Harvey

Finally I'd found this way where I didn't need a record label; I didn't need to wait for some phone call to…

— Passenger

At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick…

— Nneka

My favorite thing about guitar, and the thing that always drew me to it when I was first learning to play it,…

— Charlie Worsham

I've liked music since I can remember and the guitar was always the most attractive thing about music to me at that…

— Kevin Drumm

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my…

— Slash

I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves…

— Johnny Marr

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was…

— Bruce Springsteen

It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana!

— Miyavi

I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart.

— Eddie Kirkland

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again,…

— Ace Frehley

When you pick up a guitar, you don't put down your First Amendment rights.

— Tom Morello

I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so…

— Matt Schulze

There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.

— Michael Jackson

The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.

— Rodney Atkins

I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing…

— Mike Gordon

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

— Lola Kirke

... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters

— Albert Lee

I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.

— Jamie Hince

If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars…

— Gary Moore

My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.

— Zacky Vengeance