Guitar Quotes · Page 51

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing…

— Don Johnson

I listen to other people's stuff and, more and more, you realise how much is layered and how many different guitar parts…

— Ben Howard

If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson

— Greg Brown

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

— Annie E. Clark

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking…

— B. B. King

It's not odd to be a female in a band anymore. It's not odd to be a girl carrying a guitar case…

— Nita Strauss

Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was…

— Donald Dunn

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living

— Lyle Lovett

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the…

— Gary Cherone

To me, it was a bigger emotional challenge to sing, because I feel like it's very intimate thing to do. But guitar…

— Monica Barbaro

You can't expect to just meet someone who's going to teach you the ins and outs of the industry if you're not…

— Ellie Rowsell

We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and…

— Thom Yorke

I bought a Hofner guitar and amplifier for 32 guineas, then spent ages trying to make a bottleneck. At that point, I…

— Chris Rea

I grew up with my parents always listening to rock music. My dad wanted me to play guitar, but I always had…

— Murda Beatz

When Taylor Swift was first beginning to really take off, a couple of guys I knew in her band called and offered…

— Matthew Ramsey

When I was in college, I didn't know a lot of female guitar players. It was Bonnie Raitt, Joni Mitchell, Lita Ford,…

— Susan Tedeschi

When I produce someone's record I have to remember it's their record..no matter what I bring to it..er, sometimes that's not too…

— Robin Guthrie

I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I…

— Sufjan Stevens

I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to…

— Danny Jacob

I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get…

— Angus Young

When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to…

— Brendon Urie

I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there,…

— Alan Arkin

The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Moore's guitar…

— Channing Tatum

"The Hallmark Sessions" is an extraordinary release. Breau plays beautiful chords (sounding a little like Johnny Smith in spots) and inventive single-note…

— Scott Yanow

If you put heavy, regular classic guitar strings on a baritone ukulele, it gets pretty low. It has a really nice, low,…

— Lou Barlow

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

— Anonymous

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

— Rickey Medlocke

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

— Krist Novoselic

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

— Dave Mustaine

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else…

— Billy Corgan

I'm still constantly learning and that's what keeps me excited about the guitar.

— Gary Hoey

You can't just plug your guitar in your computer and make it sound like an old record.

— Frank Dukes

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.

— Tim Hudson

I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it's so inspirational.

— Joe Bonamassa

I've played guitar in so many different styles, and I want to revisit them all.

— Jimmy Page

It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I'm always trying to learn something new or trying to be…

— Lzzy Hale

A Guitar Store Is The Only Place In The Known Universe Where A Guy Will Allow Himself To Shop Like A Woman

— Tim Brookes

It's not easy being a female guitar player. You have to believe in yourself.

— Orianthi

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

— Kurt Cobain

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad…

— David Russell