Guitar Quotes · Page 33

Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.

— Gary Moore

Ask any guitar player - it's hard to feed yourself when you're picking for a living.

— J. J. Cale

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

— Jimmy Page

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

— Little Richard

Well, I think at first, songs were sort of the vehicle which allowed me to be on the stage and get to…

— Taylor Goldsmith

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

— Adrian Belew

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

— Alexander Ludwig

My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar…

— David Edwards

“Billy Rankin is a true Glasgow rock legend. He has everything going for him: he's a brilliant guitarist, he writes killer songs,…

— Robert Fields

Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then,…

— Frank Zappa

There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend,…

— Keith Richards

I am an old-school guitar player. I'm not an '80s-'90s sort of shredder who plays a million notes a minute. I am…

— Tobias Forge

My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map…

— Jason Aldean

Yes, there were piano bands and great rock pianists, from Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard to Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, and…

— Daniel Levitin

Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to…

— Ryan Adams

People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry -…

— Rajneesh

The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

I picked up the guitar very late, in a very pagan way - I didn't know how to play, but I knew…

— Lou Doillon

I like the idea of becoming [fairly] good at lots of things rather than very good at just one thing. So it…

— Tom Hodgkinson

My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her…

— B. B. King

Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van…

— Phil Anselmo

They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays. "Oh, I am planning things," said Jamie.…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I'm not like other guitar players. In fact, I'm not even like most acoustic players because I use the nylon-string acoustic. I…

— Jose Feliciano

Personally, I'm so intrigued by guitar effects pedals. To me they are like tattoos - once you get one, you want another.

— Tom Sandoval

I play mostly Gibsons. In fact, they have just given me a signature guitar.

— Lzzy Hale

I've started to look at guitar playing from more than just a standpoint of using certain modes and techniques.

— Jim Root

My father started me off on the guitar, and we learned classical guitar together.

— Julian Bream

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.

— Fred Frith

I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon.

— Steve Lukather

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

— Lucas Grabeel

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take…

— Eric Clapton

I find it to be an ongoing challenge to keep the guitar from becoming too traditional.

— Edge

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

— Paul Weller

I have smaller hands, so it's nice being a littler guy, having a guitar that fits my body type.

— Brendon Urie

Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.

— Isaac Hanson

When I was very young, it was Guns N' Roses and Metallica. I'd play air guitar on my bed. They've been the…

— M. Shadows

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

— Adam Jones

Guitar players I find kind of boring - and that's not meant as a dig. I find myself boring.

— Joe Satriani

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

— David Gilmour