Guitar Quotes · Page 53

I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and…

— Rosanne Cash

Well, harpsichord is kind of a big guitar, isn't it? I mean, it is plucked, after all.

— Mahan Esfahani

I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time..

— Kurt Cobain

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all…

— Eddie Murphy

Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.

— Martin Garrix

When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.

— Sam Endicott

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.

— Marnie Stern

It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.

— Chet Atkins

I think I was around 10 or 11 years of age when I got my first guitar, but I can remember being…

— Mike Powell

It sounds boring, but I'm such a guitar junkie and a gear junkie. I'm always fiddling with my stuff. It's relaxing to…

— Frankie Ballard

I did Bronislaw Kaper's tune. He wrote "On Green Dolphin Street." I mean, I did all those ballads, all them ballads from…

— Miles Davis

I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a…

— Mitski

I become a better actor after I step on a stage in front of, like, 500 people when it's just me, a…

— Bryan Greenberg

I heard Skip James, and it pierced me. It felt like punk rock to me, real and raw. It was just one…

— Fantastic Negrito

When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a…

— Kirk Hammett

I had the Slash 'How to Play Guitar' DVD. I just wanted to be the best guitarist, like, ever. My brother played…

— Luke Hemmings

Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't care if it's Bruno Mars or Aerosmith or ZZ Top... it's about songs. 'Paperback Writer,' 'Satisfaction,' 'Cat Scratch Fever,' 'Walk…

— Ted Nugent

Most of the time I sit down with my guitar or at the piano, and I play for awhile until I get…

— Jackie DeShannon

That's always attractive to me, to work with music whose form is a big question mark. Even many of my favorite bands…

— Charlie Clouser

Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the…

— Chet Atkins

There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you…

— Eddie Vedder

There's three guitar players from Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gary Rossington, Steve Gaines and Allen Collins and even the new guys. I just…

— 3 Doors Down

A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When…

— Pete Townshend

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

— Les Paul

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

— Mike Figgis

It's a guy thing, playing the guitar. Being a female and trying to go to the same auditions as the guys, it's…

— Orianthi

At 12 or 13, I picked up a guitar because my mother made me learn how to play.

— Lou Barlow

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

— Andres Segovia

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes,…

— Brian May

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I…

— Maia Mitchell

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

— Oscar de la Renta

The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.

— Annie Dillard

I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.

— James Vincent McMorrow

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I…

— Mick Mars

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

— Janis Ian

I'd love to be able to draw or play guitar or dance. All three at the same time - that's the talent…

— Owen King

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

— Frank Zappa

My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like…

— Amber Tamblyn

The guitar l learned on was probably worth $4 or something, but it was priceless to me. It meant so much.

— John McLaughlin