Guitar Quotes · Page 46

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

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

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

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

— Andy Summers

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar…

— Margaret Mitchell

I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then…

— Glenn Hughes

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the…

— Doc Watson

I got really excited about it. But then we went into the studio and tried to record some with different musicians, and…

— Johnny Cash

There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff.…

— James Hetfield

That's the nice thing about being in Mr. Big, is I'm not only the guitar player. I'm the background singer, and so…

— Paul Gilbert

I always loved singing because I grew up in a very musical family. My mom wasn't able to do music professionally because…

— Jamila Woods

The cult of the instrument is O.K. for people who are mad about the guitar. But I love music. The guitar is…

— Julian Bream

After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful…

— Panda Bear

If you play "I Don't Want To Know" by Fleetwood Mac loud enough -- you can hear Lindsey Buckingham's fingers sliding down…

— Chuck Klosterman

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on…

— Will Ferrell

Music is a spiritual expression of what's in your heart. Music as a way of getting rich is a pretty new thing,…

— Trey Anastasio

Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with…

— Pete Seeger

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without…

— Scott Weiland

Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can…

— Ritchie Blackmore

When you get in the middle of a career and you're successful, people come and offer you things. My biggest fear was…

— Tim McGraw

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

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

— Astrid S

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

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

— Chrissie Hynde

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

— Mark Knopfler

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'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

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

— Bryce Dessner

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

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