Guitar Quotes · Page 30

You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good.

— Jakob Dylan

I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent…

— Frank Zappa

I did play the guitar and sing; I was in a band called The Estrogens: three females and one very brave guy.

— Carolyn Porco

I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.

— James Hetfield

I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar…

— Gary Cherone

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

— John Frusciante

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

— Kevin Bacon

I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.

— Vivian Campbell

I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I…

— Bonnie Raitt

With slide guitar, you're just hanging this piece of glass on your hand. It's a really beautiful instrument in that it's so…

— Bonnie Raitt

My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was…

— Robert Trujillo

I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint…

— Frederick Franck

James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on bass has played with Johnny…

— Vonda Shepard

There were basically three themes. One was the sun theme which is the guitar when he'd get sun on his leg and…

— A. R. Rahman

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments -…

— Imogen Heap

I enjoy listening to Olla Bell. There is also this young guitar player, John Duke Lippincott, he sometimes goes by Johnny Duke.…

— David Bromberg

In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a…

— Andrew Dost

Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

I just think that the question of women in rock or women playing guitar, I just think it's such a non-issue, and…

— Annie E. Clark

Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot…

— Anthony Bourdain

Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks…

— Steve Lawson

It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,…

— Stevie Nicks

There once was a girl who found herself dead. She peered over the ledge of heaven and saw that back on earth…

— Jandy Nelson

One day, I was just fingering around on the keys of a Fender Rhodes piano, and I came up with this little…

— Brian Fallon

I know as far as I'm concerned, I'm getting really excited about writing, and I'm taking guitar and vocal lessons.

— Ryan Ross

It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style.

— Kenny Loggins

I used to run home from school, pick up my guitar, and lock myself in my room and play.

— Angus Young

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

— Rick Springfield

The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar…

— Ian Anderson

When I pick up Hank Williams' guitar or that first suit that Johnny Cash wore on stage, it empowers me.

— Marty Stuart

My bajo sexto, a big Mexican acoustic guitar, comes from a shop in L.A. run by three generations of Mexicans.

— Paul Young

I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.

— Chrissie Hynde

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

— Glen Hansard

Music is a big passion for me, and whenever we all friends get together we play guitar, sing songs and play games.

— Ranvir Shorey

For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really…

— Doug Martsch

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

— Andy Summers

I can play 'Guitar Hero,' most of the songs on Medium and some of the songs on Hard. No Expert.

— Ryan Hansen

I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my first…

— Benjamin Clementine

This guy told me that playing the guitar is the best way to calm you down. I bet he never tried smashing…

— Nikhil Saluja

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at…

— Joshua Homme