Guitar Quotes · Page 124

'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had…

— Pete Doherty

I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music…

— Christian Fennesz

I feel in Spain they kill the art instinct. The education system is really bad, and they've got to change because in…

— Juancho Hernangomez

Until I was around 12 or 13, I only listened to classical music, mostly Tchaikovsky. But around that age, I started listening…

— Varg Vikernes

I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack,…

— Eddie Van Halen

The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I…

— Bruce Springsteen

I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn't touch a guitar for two years, but when I realized I…

— Ronnie Montrose

But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I…

— Terry Kath

While I was playing football in the U.S., I learnt to play the guitar, and I'm picking it up again now.

— Alex Scott

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully…

— Ian Anderson

You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands…

— James Vincent McMorrow

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

— Ernie Isley

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

— Rickey Medlocke

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

— David Pajo

I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good…

— Dan Bejar

I don't really love the guitar hero trip, anyway, so it's not something I'm actively searching for or after. I don't like…

— Derek Trucks

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

— Doc Watson

I haven't learned anything new on guitar since high school. And I think it's time to learn something.

— Jill Sobule

I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.

— Phoebe Bridgers

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

— Alan Price

If you'd asked me when I was six, 16, and 26, I wanted nothing more than to be a big, recognized rock…

— Tobias Forge

I wish I had met [Francesca] Woodman forty years ago. It would have been great to live with her for a year.…

— Richard Prince

When I do find myself having downtime, I just put my guitar in my hands.

— Ruston Kelly

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me…

— Glenn Tipton