Guitar Quotes · Page 33

After 35 years of bone-crushing rock guitar playing, I'm finally starting to get my head out of the harmonic sand and learning…

— Paul Gilbert

As a conscientious objector I did my community service in 1971 in a psychiatric hospital and a friend there, who also was…

— Michael Rother

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

— Taylor Swift

I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.

— J. J. Cale

I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs…

— Page McConnell

I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that,…

— Paul Weller

Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, 'I…

— Robbie Robertson

If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody…

— Eric Benet

I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a…

— Mitski

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing…

— Don Johnson

In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers…

— Kim Gordon

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry…

— Michael Bamberger

A lot of guys picked up an instrument because they couldn't get girls to pay attention to them in high school. They…

— Bebe Buell

At the time, it all seemed pretty normal. It was okay to have a pink guitar and glow-in-the-dark pants, and play with…

— Paul Gilbert

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound…

— Bradford Cox

Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it.

— Frank Zappa

I just liked music, and I really liked rock guitar. I didn't think I was going to be a rock guitar player,…

— Chrissie Hynde

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

— Jimmy Page

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

— Dusty Hill

I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing…

— Michiel Huisman

I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.

— Annie E. Clark

I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films.

— Tom Holland

I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.

— Frank Gambale

What I think is cool about Fender, and what originally drew me to them, was the Fender electric guitar headstock, which I've…

— Grace VanderWaal

The guitar chose me.

— Charlie Byrd