Guitar Quotes · Page 42

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

— Dan Fogelberg

When I was 14, I bought myself a cheap electric guitar and tried to teach myself.

— Himesh Patel

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

— Jimi Hendrix

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

— Rod Stewart

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

— Johnny Depp

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

— Trevor Rabin

I started harmonica at the age of four, and when I was 12 I started the guitar. Then I played at school.

— Peter Ham

I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to…

— Tom Perrotta

The last thing I do is go and listen to heavy rock music. But I love electronic music. The purity of the…

— Justin Chancellor

While other guitars may have more twang or an esoteric atmosphere, the Les Paul is like a T-Rex thampling everything in it's…

— Miles Zuniga

Whenever it was spring break, someone would always have a guitar down at the beach, and they'd play a random song, and…

— Cole Swindell

If you go back to early folk, it's all storytelling; that's exactly what it is: some guy telling a story in a…

— Passenger

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career…

— Randy Travis

From when I young, a lot of the things I grappled with, with instruments, was how large they were. When someone places…

— Lou Barlow

I think, without a doubt, I'd outshine The Rock because he can't do quite what I do, but he is good at…

— Elias

Every album, I'm worried that I'm a dork and a fraud - 'What if I can't sing anymore?' Then I stop thinking…

— Pink

I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something…

— Jonny Greenwood

Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing - I'll mess…

— The Edge

I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the…

— John Petrucci

I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships. I've got a couple…

— Taylor Momsen

I've learned to take care of myself. You know, I try to stay conscious of whatever my energy is at all times,…

— Brent Sexton

Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He…

— Larry Mullen, Jr

We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for…

— Kurt Cobain

Never having thought of writing for the guitar, I asked Julian Bream for a chart which would explain what the guitar could…

— William Walton

You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just…

— Gary Clark, Jr

We are not really skilled musicians. I mean, I can play a little bit of guitar. Thomas can play piano.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Most rock movies are never authentic - you'll have someone supposedly in 1958 playing a 1990 guitar, and a 1986 microphone.

— Peter Frampton

Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the…

— Dean Wareham

I got a guitar when I was 14. I made really, really, really bad music as a teen. I learned to play…

— Hunx

I played in orchestras all through high school and taught myself how to play guitar.

— Maggie Rogers

One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a…

— Rory Gallagher

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

— Iris Dement

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

— Kirk Hammett

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me…

— Skeet Ulrich

If you can't play as good or as fast as me, just give up, sell your guitar on eBay and kill yourself.

— John Petrucci

My first guitar was a Les Paul that I bought off a friend for 500 bucks. I worked a long time to…

— Jeff Hanneman

I always knew I was going to make a record called 'The Foundling.' Since I picked up a guitar, I knew it.

— Mary Gauthier

The electric guitar and its players hold a place of privilege in the annals of rock music. It is the engine, the…

— Daniel Levitin

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

— Jerry Cantrell

I'm a very tough critic of my guitar-playing. Sometimes I don't even want to do it anymore.

— Allan Holdsworth