Guitar Quotes · Page 41

Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone.

— Chris Stapleton

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

— George Harrison

You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes... it's nice to have different paints on your palette.

— Dave Genn

I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar…

— Scott Ian

I think I've been playing bass for as long as I've played guitar, and I love them both.

— Devin Townsend

I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.

— David Bromberg

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.

— Billy Bob Thornton

A lot of guitar players, in every genre, are afraid to leave space. They're afraid to leave a hole, afraid they'll fall…

— Gary Moore

It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar…

— Ace Frehley

There are some beautiful things about people like Katy Perry, who are bold enough to go up on a pink cotton-candy cloud,…

— Nancy Wilson

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is…

— Leo Kottke

All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was…

— Jamie Woon

I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never…

— Roger Daltrey

For me, I guess music has always been the through-line. You know, I played guitar from a really young age, and my…

— Sam Palladio

People didn't know I played guitar on all the hit records I had. I've never been in an acoustic guitar magazine and…

— Dion DiMucci

There's successes you have in your career. For me, for example, as a guitar player, as somebody in a band putting out…

— John Petrucci

I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music…

— Scotty Moore

And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird…

— Eddie Van Halen

There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and…

— Michael Martin Murphey

When I was around 13 or 14, I started getting really into songwriting. And one day, I was rooting through my mum's…

— Tom Odell

First of all, who's your A&R? A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar? But he don't know the meaning of dope,…

— GZA

One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to…

— Frank Stallone

After Chuck Berry died, it seemed web sites popped up like mushrooms to show where he'd taken the guitar introduction to 'Johnny…

— Greil Marcus

These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And…

— Ani DiFranco

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

— Trevor Dunn

I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck…

— Phil Anselmo

I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have…

— Jamie Blackley

Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it.

— Frank Zappa

When I have downtime, music is a big part of my life. Not so much singing, but I play the guitar.

— KJ Apa

When you're in the Allman Brothers, you would think you'd be able to play freely on guitar.

— Susan Tedeschi

My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off.

— Liz Phair

I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable.…

— Lauryn Hill

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics…

— Cat Power

I think with a lot of producers, they think computers can create the best drum track, or guitar track and it comes…

— Mitch Lucker

I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.

— Juliana Hatfield

My sister taught me how to use my voice, and my brother taught me how to play guitar.

— Sigrid

I think the singer in Pearl Jam should eat some Pearl Jam! He cannot sing to save his life! And the guitar…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I love to sing - whenever I am not on set, I am usually in my room jamming out with my guitar.

— Peyton List

'Big Love' was originally an ensemble song, but it's done now as a single guitar piece.

— Lindsey Buckingham

When I have the opportunity, I want to perform the guitar live for my fans. Please expect that!

— Kim Tae-yeon