Guitar Quotes · Page 37

Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive

— Les Paul

“Playing the guitar is all very well, John, but you'll never make a living at it.”

— John Lennon's aunt

In any moment, I guess we could whip out a guitar and start playing old school.

— Kyle Gass

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

— John Frusciante

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

— Tommy Shaw

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

— Alexis Korner

Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

— James Taylor

When I was younger, and Iron Maiden and Def Leppard and all that stuff was coming out, I was learning all those…

— John Petrucci

I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when…

— Ani DiFranco

I was playing guitar before I heard The Beatles, but as I got older and listened to their tunes I realized they…

— Noel Gallagher

My fans, they know my dad as Guitar Guy or whatever, and he's kind of just this shredder that plays on my…

— Synyster Gates

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with…

— Robert Quine

I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that…

— Paul Reed Smith

I love playing guitar every night, and to be at this point where it's like, the songs are done and I'm happy…

— Adam Granduciel

I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on…

— Ritchie Blackmore

I don't collect the way other people do. Some people collect rare guitars, like, 'I have a '54 Strat worth $50,000.' And…

— David Crosby

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it.…

— Jon Pardi

When I produce someone's record I have to remember it's their record..no matter what I bring to it..er, sometimes that's not too…

— Robin Guthrie

I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I…

— Sufjan Stevens

Pushing myself against my own will really, because some of this stuff is hard. I don't consider myself to be a great…

— Cody Johnson

I grew up in a really rural town, Stratford, Ontario, with 30,000 people. There's a big festival thrown in the town. A…

— Justin Bieber

Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel…

— Steve Stockman

Larry Carlton is an incredibly versatile guitarist who has been a major force for guitar for many years. He is easily recognizable…

— George Benson

Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures…

— Dan Hill

If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.

— Eric Clapton

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in…

— Syd Barrett

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

— St. Vincent

The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the…

— Steve Goodman

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or…

— Joe Pass

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

— Sheryl Crow

Honestly, if I was to learn how to play the guitar it would be an acoustic guitar. That's just the way I…

— De'Aaron Fox

My little brother can play the guitar; he can sing. He was a worship leader at his church. Me, no talent.

— Delilah

Bob Dylan is great. I've been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a…

— Jake Bugg

Chromamatic' is actually about changing the strings on my guitar and tuning my guitar.

— Wayne Static

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

— Ryan Adams

If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

— Frank Zappa

When I feel like improvising, I always improvise on the guitar, never on the lute. It's as natural to me as breathing.

— Julian Bream

I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.

— Ronnie Wood

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

— Cameron Monaghan