Guitar Quotes · Page 34

I feel like the guitar playing gives me rhythm with my punches - really helps to change up my jab.

— Joseph Parker

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were…

— Tommy Bolin

If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.

— Neil Young

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

— Chris Isaak

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in…

— Hal Sparks

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

— Freddie Green

Being a drummer definitely influences how I play guitar. And then piano influences drumming and vice versa.

— Matt Skiba

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

— Adrian Belew

'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this track came after I wrote…

— Luis Fonsi

When you play guitar and strum, you're using biceps and triceps to move up and down. I realized you could just turn…

— Jake Shimabukuro

I really wasn't into sports at an early age. I couldn't wait to get home from school and go straight to my…

— Peter Frampton

I may be taking a different approach, being a guy leading a band with a trombone, but if you take that out…

— Trombone Shorty

That gets me upset- you're jamming along, checking out the crowd and having a good time, and then your equipment goes down.…

— Jeff Hanneman

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range…

— Brian Eno

There's a sound with Motley Crue, and it comes with Vince's voice, which is such an important part of the show, and…

— Nikki Sixx

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned…

— Jack White

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, 'Yeah, songwritin' man,' looking wistful.…

— Alex Turner

I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about…

— Jonny Greenwood

There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.…

— Michael Jackson

I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,'…

— Rachel Boston

I grew up playing guitar and writing music, and I always wanted to be a songwriter and a singer and play the…

— Trixie Mattel

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown…

— Dr. John

We're very much perfectionists, so when we're putting on a huge show and want to play to the best of ability, we…

— Synyster Gates

Yes, of course, I've been dreaming about it since I was a kid. Even now, I'm 31 years-old now and I've never…

— Nita Strauss

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being…

— Dan Aykroyd

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to…

— Andres Segovia

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

— Brian May

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking…

— Lou Doillon

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a…

— Dee Dee Ramone

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

— Christina Grimmie

As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it…

— John Prine

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

— Truman Capote

My dad had an acoustic guitar, and I remember I was like 12 when I started learning to play chords.

— Ellie Rowsell

“I love you as a guitar loves those playful nimble hands. Without your touch, the strings of my heart can’t play the…

— Debasish Mridha

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a…

— Don Johnson

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

— James Bay

I tend to like the traditional sound: three-part harmonies, guitar, and piano. I mean, a well-played guitar is a joy forever... or…

— Christine McVie

There are many pop stars who are great performers - but there is no chart-topping pop star in history who could play…

— Tom Morello

Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold…

— Brett Morgen

I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.

— Vivian Campbell