Guitar Quotes · Page 12

The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just…

— Sam Hunt

I get on my porch with my guitar, look at my trees, and write a song.

— Avi Kaplan

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

When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big,…

— Tom DeLonge

When I was younger, I had a horrible flight. Horrible. It was well before I was 10 years old. So I always…

— John 5

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

— James Vincent McMorrow

The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the…

— Steve Goodman

May was so great to work with, he even took me over to Japan for some dates. It blew me away when…

— Gary Hoey

I'll tell you, my dad played and sang, and it didn't take me long to figure out that playing a guitar was…

— Glen Campbell

I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar…

— Geddy Lee

If you think about a punk band, there are only, like, three instruments - bass, guitar and drums. And I wanted it…

— Peaches

It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing…

— David Gilmour

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

— Steve Young

There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction…

— Scott Stapp

Usually what I do is I write my vocal melody over guitar parts and then I come up with lyrics.

— Hope Sandoval

We didn't have much money when I was younger, so I had to collect Coke bottles and cash them in and get…

— Gary Rossington

I met my manager when I was 17, when I didn't have enough money to buy a set of guitar strings. There…

— Johnny Marr

I started playing guitar because of instrumental guitar music.

— Nita Strauss

I actually was there down in Florida when Prince did 'Purple Rain' in the rain. He was out there with the guitar…

— Joe Mauer

I always wanted to be like a darker-complected Keith Urban, but I don't play the guitar that well. And I'm a little…

— Jimmie Allen

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar…

— Andres Segovia

I listen to everything. My I-Pod's really diverse-from guitar instrumentals to Rascal Flatts to Usher.

— Orianthi

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea…

— Steve Burns

I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.

— Sam Hunt

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

— Cillian Murphy