Guitar Quotes · Page 131

The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.

— George Benson

To me, a day off is sitting at a piano or with a guitar and writing.

— Rick Nielsen

Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I…

— Jimmy Page

In my eyes, and in my opinion, the guitar is strong and powerful and will never die.

— John 5

My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing…

— Pete Townshend

At nine or ten, I was playing guitar in music class in my elementary school in Jackson, Michigan. They had a guitar…

— Lou Barlow

We are not really skilled musicians. I mean, I can play a little bit of guitar. Thomas can play piano.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When…

— Moby

I ended up starting guitar because I didn't want to just be the lead singer.

— Lzzy Hale

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 first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends who told me they were…

— Darren Robinson

No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing;…

— Pat Metheny

I played guitar since I was 9 years old, drums since I was 11.

— Kenny Beats

If you have a good riff with a vocal as well, then it becomes a devastating song. That's why people love riff-rock:…

— Joe Bonamassa

I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.

— Mike Dean

Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my…

— Miranda Lambert

I didn't know how to play lead guitar. There was a freedom in not knowing how to do it.

— Charlotte Caffey

When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find…

— Robby Krieger

I very easily could have broke Hulk Hogan leg because I was the real shooter. Hulk was the bodybuilder guitar player.

— The Iron Sheik

Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And…

— Jason McCoy

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

— Alvin Lee

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that…

— Jules Shear

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living

— Lyle Lovett

What I've done from the very beginning is play everything with extreme accuracy. I never said to myself, 'Okay, if I put…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.

— Kirk Hammett