Guitar Quotes · Page 18

I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’

— Dhani Harrison

I named my guitar Joan after Joan Baez.

— Rachel Zegler

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

— Brownie McGhee

When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone.

— Dan Auerbach

I want to make money playing guitar.

— John 5

My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

— Gloria Estefan

I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.

— Gene Ween

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

— Shaun White

You can tune your guitar funky, and something's gonna come out. There's no secret to it - either you got it, or…

— Dimebag Darrell

One of my favorite things to do is play guitar with my dad, who taught me.

— Drew Scott

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

— Niall Horan

I think music comes out of silence... and I have a lot of silent time, without a pesky guitar interrupting my thoughts.

— Jason Becker

I've written a soulful record but it's informed by my sort of indie guitar past.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

We've given up the idea that a guitar must always and everywhere be readily available just because we're a band.

— Bill Kaulitz

I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.

— Declan Donnelly

On any given day, if I play the guitar, I can put myself somewhere. I always thought, 'This is the way you…

— Ry Cooder

I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows…

— Carl Wilson

The bottom line with Dimebag is he got off on making people happy. It didn't matter if it was about playing his…

— Vinnie Paul

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility…

— Joni Mitchell

I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric…

— Keith Richards

It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady…

— Marty Stuart

My foundation is acoustic guitar, and it is finger-picking and all of that and sort of an orchestral style of playing. Lead…

— Lindsey Buckingham

Most blues guitar players don't concentrate on singing and melodies. And forget about the bridge - the bridge doesn't exist. They go…

— Joe Bonamassa

It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional…

— Steve Morse

If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if…

— John McLaughlin

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

— Patti Smith

The expertise displayed by each musician is jaw-dropping and it's matched by their sensitivity and taste... Lizzy Hoyt displays equal mastery of…

— Jim Sinclair

The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet…

— Randy Bachman

To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to…

— Wes Montgomery

Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur…

— Rob Sheffield

It seemed so wimpy at first when I started to play [guitar]. So I started playing loud with lots of effects just…

— J Mascis

I like to sit in front of the computer, going through files of music, and recording the final vocals, guitars and what-…

— Jason Mraz

I would hole up in my bedroom growing up and teach myself guitar.

— Dustin Lynch

I'm not a household name; I'm just a household name to guitar freaks.

— Joe Bonamassa

I love fumbling around on the guitar, I love being present with people.

— Rob Morgan

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

— Gordie Howe

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

— Kirk Hammett

To be honest, I just find the guitar quite hard.

— Ellie Rowsell

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar.

— Maybelle Carter