Guitar Quotes · Page 31

I have held Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock guitar and imagined what it would be like to play it, but that's the extent of…

— Paul Allen

You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the whole...You only notice the guitar when it's not there

— Freddie Green

Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold.…

— John Prine

Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.

— Sam Amidon

I probably spent more time as a kid playing air guitar to Jimmy Page than any other guitar player.

— Paul Gilbert

I don't feel like I deserve to have to do a guitar pull with four brand-new artists when I've sold millions of…

— Sara Evans

May was so great to work with, he even took me over to Japan for some dates. It blew me away when…

— Gary Hoey

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me…

— Sean Lennon

Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model…

— Angus Young

Jeff Beck is probably my favorite and biggest influence on the guitar. Touring with him in 2010 was such a milestone. I…

— Gary Hoey

You don't need to be talented. You don't even have to play the guitar to be a guitar player in a punk-rock…

— Michael Stipe

I couldn't even have a guitar. But I got a three-track recorder that was so small that I could take it with…

— Jenny Hval

The guitar player that I'm doing my solo tour with, Angel Vivaldi, he's been releasing incredible guitar albums and people just don't…

— Nita Strauss

Don't be precious about anything-much less a certain guitar sound. There is always another interesting sound or effect just waiting to be…

— Robin Guthrie

Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really…

— Flea

There's something about approaching universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere, and it helps me…

— Jim Croce

When you play guitar you are drawing a frame around a moment and saying to the listener, 'Here is how I want…

— Philip Toshio Sudo

When I saw Buddy Holly play in 1958, I was there looking for girls. At that age, you want to get laid.…

— Motorhead

You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to…

— Ellie Goulding

Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt…

— Lauren Oliver

Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily…

— Lee Ritenour

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of…

— James Taylor

I've liked music since I can remember and the guitar was always the most attractive thing about music to me at that…

— Kevin Drumm

When you go to bed at night, you get seven or eight hours of sleep. I've had enough sleep. I've rested, and…

— Damien Rice

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

— Ted Nugent

I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.

— Hugh Jackman

Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how…

— Pat Metheny

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

— Stephan Jenkins

When you learn to play, you just hold the guitar differently. You can tell when someone's just never held an instrument.

— Monica Barbaro

I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

— Paul McCartney

I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

— Rhys Ifans

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little…

— John Frusciante

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

— Nick Cave

Doctor, if I put this here guitar down now I ain't never going to wake up.

— Huddie William Ledbetter

I know how to play the acoustic guitar, but I'm learning to play the electric guitar now. I'm sure it will be…

— Harshvardhan Rane

When I first wanted to play guitar it was because I had seen Brian Setzer. He's so good! I mean I was…

— Kim Shattuck

I knew Rocky George, the guitar player, 'cause I went to junior high school with him, so I've known him for many…

— Robert Trujillo

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

— Buzz Osborne

I have a sloppy style of playing guitar. A percussive style. Unique in fact.

— Sixto Rodriguez

I love singing my own stuff, but I also love being a guitar player. Doing both keeps things interesting.

— Orianthi