Guitar Quotes · Page 114

All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.

— Joe Bonamassa

Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The…

— Patti Smith

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

— James Taylor

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

— Phil Lesh

I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a…

— Julian Casablancas

To me, my guitar has always been my orchestra.

— Jose Feliciano

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were…

— Tommy Bolin

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

— Joey Jordison

I hope our legacy will be enduring and that people think of us as an important band. But I think Ricky's guitar…

— Kate Pierson

When I was, like, 12, I remember grabbing a mic, pretending it was a guitar, and performing in front of my friends.…

— J Balvin

Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had…

— Ted Nugent

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing…

— Jimmy Page

In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.

— Dickey Betts

If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content…

— Brad Paisley

I used a fifties Les Paul custom on most of the stuff. I also used a Strat, a newer Strat. I had…

— Tracii Guns

God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.

— Dave Van Ronk

There are many excellent guitar players but I have to say Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are still at the top! There…

— Merrell Fankhauser

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.

— Willie Nelson

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on…

— Will Ferrell

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

— Kurt Cobain

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, "Yeah, songwritin' man," looking wistful.…

— Alex Turner

When I sit down and play the guitar, Im 20 years old again,

— J.J. Cale

It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.

— Graham Coxon

It's not so surprising that there are more women in metal bands. And they're not just fronting them. There are drummers and…

— Floor Jansen