Guitar Quotes · Page 145

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem,…

— Joni Mitchell

Yeah, Jody [Porter] left. He's a great guitar player. We have a guy named Phil Hurley who is going to go out…

— Adam Schlesinger

Joe Walsh is somebody who... he's a writer, obviously, and he's a singer-songwriter, whatever, but at the end of the day, when…

— Robert Trujillo

Everything I do starts on an acoustic guitar, with basically, me sitting around in the dark trying to write a song.

— Everlast

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

My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk…

— Joe Perry

The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't…

— Nancy Wilson

For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I…

— Marc Almond

“I may not have written the song, but I could add my story to it. Everyone out there could. That was what…

— Tara Kelly

I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to…

— Ronnie Wood

But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass…

— Colin Hanks

I have noticed lots more girls are coming up to me and saying, 'Hey, I started the guitar!'

— Ellie Rowsell

I decided, "Well, I'll be a forest ranger!" Because I thought, "I'll get to go out in the woods, I'll be in…

— Keith Carradine

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

— Buzz Osborne

When you're a guitar teacher, you teach people for a few years, and you become comrades after a while. Because everybody eventually…

— Joe Satriani

I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.

— Lucinda Williams

Link Wray is the all-time legend.

— Conan O'Brien

If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar,

— Jimmie Davis

I'd love to be able to draw or play guitar or dance. All three at the same time - that's the talent…

— Owen King

The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings.

— Julian Bream

Bottom line, Eliza— you’re my home and my family, and I don’t want to lose you. I could lose everything else, and…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from…

— Lenny Kravitz

If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

— Frank Zappa

I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,'…

— Rachel Boston

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

— Zakk Wylde