Guitar Quotes · Page 62

I know exactly where to put the microphone now to get a decent drum sound, and I know how to set my…

— Alex G

Sometimes I'll try something on piano and move to guitar, but usually that comes after scratching down some ideas for lyrics.

— Melody Gardot

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be…

— Chris Daughtry

As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums.

— Matt Bellamy

One of my best friends in the world is Lars Frederiksen. He plays guitar for a band called Rancid.

— CM Punk

When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.

— Dick Dale

... Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world...

— Barney Kessel

I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it.

— David Edwards

I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I…

— Deb Caletti

I started guitar when I was like thirteen. I had a friend whose dad had an electric guitar. In sixth grade or…

— Adam Granduciel

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My…

— David Gilmour

Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down…

— Dick Dale

It is a well-known mystery that guitar players suddenly get better once they are dead. Buddy Holly was the first. Stevie Ray…

— Lemmy Kilmister

The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't…

— Nancy Wilson

EverTune is, without a doubt, the most important advance in guitar playing since the electric tuner. Using the EverTune, both onstage and…

— Ben Weinman

It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful…

— Tessanne Chin

Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with…

— T Bone Burnett

I got it into my head that I had somewhat neglected the guitar, and then I did a record called 'Arena,' and…

— Todd Rundgren

And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new…

— Neil Gaiman

When I was a young comic in New York and I wasn't getting any work, I was wandering around the Lower East…

— Marc Maron

You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar.…

— David Edwards

...you think back to Tele players, and James Burton was the one who started it all. He inspired Roy Nichols (guitar for…

— Brad Paisley

Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar.…

— Joaquin Rodrigo

I had admired Waylon [ Jennings], but I never expected to meet him and get to know him. When I finally moved…

— Steve Young

I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting…

— Al Yankovic

A lot of the time, I will write a guitar riff first. I don't write drum riffs first.

— Joey Jordison

Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

— Eric Clapton

I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to…

— Passenger

I've always expressed myself on guitar, and so I look at it as another voice that is available to say what you…

— Frankie Ballard

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play…

— Ace Frehley

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.

— Brandy Clark

There's not many crazy guitar instrumentalists out there that put on a crazy monster show.

— John 5

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

— Miles Davis

I'm still like an excited kid playing guitar in front of the bedroom mirror.

— James Bay

I first picked up a guitar at seven after watching Dad play at backyard barbecues.

— Cody Simpson

Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of…

— Matt Papa

I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen,…

— DJ Ashba

I'm not a 'practicing' musician anymore. I played bass and guitar. I still pick up a guitar around the house every once…

— Scott Borchetta

The guitar has become a textural instrument rather than a lead instrument. And I think that's probably a good thing.

— Matt Bellamy

Sometimes it's hard for me to just be the guitar player and lose myself.

— Adam Granduciel