Guitar Quotes · Page 35

I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to…

— Yul Vazquez

If you learn classical guitar, you play Bach, and then John Dowland. He's the greatest. He's interesting for many, many reasons.

— Bryce Dessner

I always break three or four guitar strings per show and fling them at the audience.

— Eddie Rabbitt

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 started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

— Randy Houser

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

— Ace Frehley

B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.

— Chris Matthews

I love when an artist can stand by themselves and play their guitar and hold a crowd, but I also love bells…

— Kelsea Ballerini

Punk. . .was more a kind of do-it-yourself, anyone-can-do-it attitude. If you only played two notes on the guitar, you could figure…

— David Byrne

If I learned to play guitar it was so that I would have something to sing to, if I learned to write…

— Brandi Carlile

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets…

— Jim Sullivan

I was really crying the morning after the indication. However I am over that now. Nevertheless, I am proud for it to…

— Dave Wakeling

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not…

— Eddy Arnold

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs…

— Kristin Hersh

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana…

— Gary Clark, Jr

Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing…

— Eddie Vedder

First of all, who's your A&R? A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar? But he don't know the meaning of dope,…

— GZA

After Chuck Berry died, it seemed web sites popped up like mushrooms to show where he'd taken the guitar introduction to 'Johnny…

— Greil Marcus

And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird…

— Eddie Van Halen

I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music…

— Scotty Moore

If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the…

— Dean Wareham

“I firmly believe if you want to be a guitar player, you better start on acoustic and then graduate to electric. Don’t…

— Keith Richards

My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have…

— David Gilmour

When I was first getting into the guitar, I played it incessantly. I lived it, breathed it, ate it, and slept it.…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on…

— PJ Harvey

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

— Bill Mumy

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the…

— Robin Trower

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard…

— Oscar Isaac

About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

— Freddie Mercury

I never saw myself as the classic singer/songwriter who sticks to his guitar.

— Bill Kaulitz

I'm enjoying doing research, to get better at the guitar, to get better at rhyming. That's an essential skill.

— Katie Melua

The way I look at it, I'm a songwriter that just happens to play guitar.

— Rick Nielsen

I do very well with English, and I think I should do that more and take advantage of the versatility I have.…

— Nicky Jam

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

— Keith Richards

Steven Segal's a cool dude. He's basically a blues man. He loves playing his guitar.

— Eddie Griffin

I don't have the look of a golfer. Do I look like a rock star? I didn't make it playing guitar so…

— Tommy Fleetwood

The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player…

— Dana Gould

It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.

— Arlo Guthrie

Go on stage and stomp my foot on stage and play my guitar and sing my guts out because I love to…

— Frankie Ballard

I don't really care what music's made on - I love guitars, but I'm fine with great electronic music.

— Johnny Marr