Guitar Quotes · Page 32

When I was 15, I got super into Eric Clapton. My father took notice of this and got me a guitar for Christmas.

— Elias

I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied.

— Julian Bream

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

— Beck

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

— Eric Clapton

I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

— James Bay

We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to…

— Kurt Cobain

I'm a terrible drummer; I almost cannot play the guitar nor sax nor trumpet.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

I can't try to write a song - songs come out of me. I have to play the guitar and if I…

— Shavo Odadjian

I taught myself to play guitar and sing. I ended up writing a lot of music and had a band and was…

— Daniel Lissing

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National;…

— Mark Knopfler

I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to…

— Jeff Beck

'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had…

— Pete Doherty

I sounded like a fantasist at school when you'd go round the class, and they'd say, 'What do Mummy and Daddy do?'…

— Emily Atack

I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in…

— Eric Hutchinson

From the very beginning, I had a lot of female role models in music. I would go to shows, and there were…

— Lucy Dacus

It was when I got to NXT with Dusty Rhodes, being the creative force he was, and told us to bring our…

— Elias

... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed…

— Roger McGuinn

You just have to have a song that you're desperate to play along to, and for me it was 'Turn' by the…

— Amy Macdonald

My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an album of…

— Todd Rundgren

My favorite thing about guitar, and the thing that always drew me to it when I was first learning to play it,…

— Charlie Worsham

I was working with D'Mile - he's amazing! And I don't know, it was like that guitar riff was so crazy to…

— PJ Harvey

It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I…

— Ian Axel

At times I have a beat first and then I write. Sometimes I have a melody in my head and I pick…

— Nneka

Finally I'd found this way where I didn't need a record label; I didn't need to wait for some phone call to…

— Passenger

I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.

— Eliot Sumner

I tell people to listen really closely to the song when they're working out their guitar parts.

— Mike Campbell

My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.

— Dusty Hill

I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.

— George Thorogood

Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it’s more…

— Dave Mustaine

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

— Dave Barry

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

— John Entwistle

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

— Hunter Hayes

I'm Mexican, and we do a lot of singing, and it was my brother's guitar that I'd practice on, and he would…

— Sixto Rodriguez

Most people can do what I do - they can do guitar solos - but they can't do a good, hard rhythm…

— Angus Young

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play…

— John Lee Hooker

I've always been an eccentric, a rocker at heart. I can't play the guitar, but I can play the griddle.

— Guy Fieri

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.

— John Oates

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

— Lee Ritenour

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

— Gregory Harrison

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played…

— Benjamin Booker