Guitar Quotes · Page 52

When I do find myself having downtime, I just put my guitar in my hands.

— Ruston Kelly

I can play anything - piano, drums, guitar, harp - I can even play a trumpet through another trumpet.

— Ross Lynch

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

— Billy Corgan

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time

— Lita Ford

I would take my guitar to college and sit for hours in the hills humming to myself.

— Mohit Chauhan

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

— Tracy Chapman

I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.

— Mark Kozelek

The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar…

— Shelby Lynne

I thought there couldn't be a better backdrop for some kind of powerful music than a big orchestra. My wish to hear…

— Jeff Beck

I don't really find it to be a man-dominated industry. I mean, I guess when you look at it, it is, but…

— Nita Strauss

I had piano lessons when I was five or six years old, so my mom got me this little keyboard in my…

— Lapsley

I'll try any guitar just to see if it's different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere. I'm…

— Jerry Garcia

I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window…

— Chris Hadfield

It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I…

— Bill Orcutt

That's really important in a producer - a producer that can step up and play a keyboard, play a bass, play a…

— John Gourley

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and…

— Jay Kay

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

I may make light of being a domestic terrorist, but if they can brand me a domestic terrorist and confiscate all my…

— Bernard von NotHaus

When I went to England on my own, I became a busker. I played guitar for money in Leicester Square. And the…

— Saul Rubinek

Larry Carlton is an incredibly versatile guitarist who has been a major force for guitar for many years. He is easily recognizable…

— George Benson

I grew up in a really rural town, Stratford, Ontario, with 30,000 people. There's a big festival thrown in the town. A…

— Justin Bieber

Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel…

— Steve Stockman

Pushing myself against my own will really, because some of this stuff is hard. I don't consider myself to be a great…

— Cody Johnson

I saw a spider, I didn't scream 'Cause I can belch the alphabet Just double dog dare me And I chose guitar…

— Katy Perry

At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s…

— Orianthi

I loved that playing the guitar wasn't easy. It was pain, but it was my pain. And then it became joy. My…

— Joe Satriani

I don't like playing to guitar players, actually. I'd rather just play to ordinary people.

— Allan Holdsworth

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

— Alan Price

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.

— Tony Visconti

My hobbies are playing piano and guitar, pining for girls, worrying about climate change, pining for girls, and the poetry of John…

— James Veitch

I was lonely as a young teenager and my only companion was an acoustic guitar. I would bring it with me on…

— Kemp Muhl

51 Martin [guitar] sounded pretty good as new guitar. Martin has several levels of guitars now, and this one is pretty good.

— Steve Young

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

— Robin Trower

I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.

— Kurt Cobain

When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two…

— Richard Pinhas

When I wrote the first album I had never played live before, and I'd never been on tour. So that was really…

— Amy Macdonald

I don't spend afternoons practicing my guitar to get better. I do read, though, to get inspiration for my lyrics.

— Mat Kearney

Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I…

— Joshua Roman

I never really composed guitar solos. Id usually ask to run the tapes and Id go off the top of my head…

— Mike Campbell

You’re not going to suck.’’ ‘‘Not at the guitar, anyway,’’ Shane said, deadpan. Claire punched him in the arm. ‘‘Ow.

— Rachel Caine