Guitar Quotes · Page 29

I used to listen to the Beatles and Stones, whereas Angus was more into the heavier stuff - Cream, Hendrix - with…

— Malcolm Young

You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.

— Hank Williams, Jr

I'm a singer-songwriter. So I play guitar, and I sing. Along the lines of, I guess you could call it, alternative rock.

— Brandon Jones

I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I…

— Suzanne Vega

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

— Elton John

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other…

— Keith Richards

For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing.

— Ben Howard

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

— Hope Sandoval

My fourth birthday, I was given a violin, and my fifth birthday, a guitar. I didn't start to play until I saw…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But…

— Larry Carlton

The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the…

— Dan Rosensweig

I wouldn't mind working with Queens of the Stone Age, doing some guitar stuff on that. Even Arctic Monkeys. I'd like to…

— Steve Jones

I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I…

— Kathleen Hanna

Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar,…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

Kane is a band I formed with my best friend Steve Carlson. We just got together and started playing guitar. He was…

— Christian Kane

Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young…

— Jesse Harris

The guitar's still around me. I slip it off and put it down. I want to feel him. To feel his breath…

— Jennifer Donnelly

I was lucky to have a guitar teacher who asked me what I wanted to learn. I brought in "High & Dry"…

— Rostam Batmanglij

I didn't decide to play guitar, but that was the instrument which I was offered. I've always been interested in horn-type instruments,…

— Allan Holdsworth

One of my great frustrations for 35 years at the paper was the fact I couldn't play a record for the reader…

— Robert Hilburn

I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees…

— Mahmoud Darwish

For me, the guitar was just a tool to make songs. I started when I was 10 - I learned what I…

— Anna Ternheim

There's people that say “It's not fair You have all that stuff.” I wasn't born with it. It was a horrible process…

— Louis C. K

There's no secret, but inspiration has to find you working. And that's one of the key things that I've always remembered. And…

— Justin Hayward

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

— Julian Bream

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.

— George Harrison

I was the only kid reading guitar magazines at the back of the classroom.

— Orianthi

The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.

— Sasha Frere-Jones

I'm a decent writer, barely a decent guitar player, and a terrible singer.

— Bobby Bones

I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

— Bibi Bourelly

I'm a useless guitar-player. When I put myself in a band I immediately became its weakest part. I was like my forehand…

— Mats Wilander

I drove my Mum crazy, because I wouldn't go out and play football or join the Boy Scouts, I'd just sit at…

— Gary Moore

A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very…

— Julian Bream

I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.

— Brian May

Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.

— Lemmy Kilmister

I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at,

— Johnny Winter

As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.

— David Rawlings

I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with…

— Steve Young

I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

— J. J. Cale

Everywhere I go I have a guitar, even when I travel, I take a guitar with me, this is how I get…

— Haim Saban