Guitar Quotes · Page 65

It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super.

— Dolores O'Riordan

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to…

— Julian Cope

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

— Katy Perry

When I first started playing guitar, I would sit in my room for hours and learn scales.

— Julien Baker

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

— Andy Summers

My mom was always driving me back and forth to guitar lessons, growing up. She was super supportive and probably my biggest…

— Chord Overstreet

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects…

— Paul Simonon

I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.

— Jack O'Connell

Growing up in Dallas, my first influences on the guitar were T-Bone Walker and Les Paul. T-Bone taught me how to play…

— Steve Miller

A violin neck is much smaller than the guitar's, so it's much easier to play wide intervals on one violin string. On…

— John Petrucci

The moment when I use to play guitar Smile on my face becomes double.. The moment when I use to play guitar…

— Ishmeet

I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where…

— Bonnie Raitt

Using double coil pickups kills a lot of the guitar tone - you lose the acoustic mechanics. With my single-coils driven through…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first…

— Suzi Quatro

My dream is to one day just be me and my guitar. I'm working myself to the core. Who am I, underneath…

— Lykke Li

... I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake…

— Eddie Van Halen

I think there are quite a few new Instro/Surf groups that are really great. The Mermen are good and there doing something…

— Merrell Fankhauser

We had a band called the Grainers. In our 12-year-old minds, this was like a double entendre for like being annoying and…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That's why I got my music degree. I wanted…

— Luis Fonsi

I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog.…

— Gene Autry

For 20 years I've been screaming at these guitar companies, saying, 'It's abnormal to put your arm around an acoustic guitar that…

— Dick Dale

However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was…

— Kina Grannis

I lived deep in the country in northern Wisconsin. I didn't have any neighbors or anything, so in the summers, I played…

— Trixie Mattel

The Metallica film was like this incredible life experience where I learned the most through guys that stereotypically you would think couldn't…

— Joe Berlinger

I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.

— Ted Nugent

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

— Neal Schon

All the guys I know that play guitar are also secretly drummers and vice versa.

— Mark Lanegan

He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

— Chuck Berry

There's always more than one way to play the same notes because of the nature of guitar.

— Paul Gilbert

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

— Jascha Heifetz

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

— Rick Nielsen

After playing for 40 years, I've been able to evolve the way I see the fretboard and how I hear the guitar…

— Paul Gilbert

If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.

— Zakk Wylde

I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing…

— Shawn Mendes

Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.

— Richard Lloyd

I've been playing a Fender since 1963, and before that it was my dream guitar. I can't endorse it more than that.

— Rory Gallagher

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere…

— Paul McCartney

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

— Jeff VanderMeer

We're losing the whole point: music is not to impress people, music has to stand up on its own and guitar solos…

— Gary Moore

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

— St. Vincent