Guitar Quotes · Page 31

I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar!

— Megan Lee

When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar.

— Nina Nesbitt

One of my favorite guitar players and musicians is a guy named Jimmy Herring.

— Coy Bowles

Yeah, nothing feels better than knowing that I can put a guitar in my hands at any time and rip - even…

— Dimebag Darrell

Mike is a genius guitar player and keyboard player. I realized that, with this group, I just joined Mike Keneally's band!

— Joe Satriani

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

— Ellie Rowsell

I started on acoustic guitar after I heard Leadbelly and Big Bill Broonzy.

— Rory Gallagher

Jimi Hendrix, he was a rock star. But he played guitar; I don't. I've just found ways to use words to make…

— Future

I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio when…

— Ronnie Milsap

I didn't go to guitar school and I don't know how to play chords, but I can do it in my own…

— Marilyn Manson

Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing…

— Tracy Chapman

I didn't realise that I was so accomplished on the guitar until someone said to me, 'How do you do that?' That…

— Donovan

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

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

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

Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead…

— Violeta Parra

How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It's not a big, epic Hollywood score but…

— A. R. Rahman

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons…

— Simon Cowell

It's a cocktail-party circuit in D.C., That guy who couldn't master the guitar and get in a band and get laid, he…

— Dennis Miller

I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me,…

— Robby Takac

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

— J Mascis

We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I…

— Johnny Cash

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

— Jason Mraz

The best slide guitar, unless you're playing the Muddy Waters-style, is the old '52 Goldtop Les Paul.

— Rory Gallagher

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

— Ritchie Blackmore

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and…

— Pinetop Perkins

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar.

— Birdy

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

— Michael Gira

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I…

— Steven Wilson

James Hetfield, I mean, the minute he plugs in his guitar and adjusts the tone knob, he comes up with the world's…

— Robert Trujillo

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

— Les Paul

I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a…

— Jake Shimabukuro

AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.

— Bonnie Raitt

I listen to everything. My I-Pod's really diverse-from guitar instrumentals to Rascal Flatts to Usher.

— Orianthi

Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.

— Dave Edmunds

I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldn't dignify it with the term band - get…

— Stephen Mangan

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

— Kaki King

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens…

— Burton Cummings

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw…

— Erin McKeown