Guitar Quotes · Page 38

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

— George Benson

I play piano (bit of guitar) and I sing and I love to jam and harmonize with other musical people.

— Jade Hassoune

I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.

— Orianthi

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.

— Syd Barrett

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

— Richie Sambora

Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.

— Merle Haggard

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on…

— Nuno Bettencourt

My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

With my songs, the question is always, 'Can you pull it off live, alone on just an acoustic guitar?' That's the litmus…

— Shawn Colvin

“Who needs to be a Phoenix for rebirth? One simply requires themselves and an instrument to clean the slate and start over,…

— TheBakaViolinist

I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the…

— George Benson

When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really…

— Martin Gore

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too.…

— Jim Sturgess

It all started in a local park in El Paso called Madeleine Park. At a ditch, a very small ditch, that everybody…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different…

— Eugene Chadbourne

I actually was there down in Florida when Prince did 'Purple Rain' in the rain. He was out there with the guitar…

— Joe Mauer

I may make light of being a domestic terrorist, but if they can brand me a domestic terrorist and confiscate all my…

— Bernard von NotHaus

When I went to England on my own, I became a busker. I played guitar for money in Leicester Square. And the…

— Saul Rubinek

I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing…

— John Fogerty

The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's…

— Zachary Cole Smith

It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you…

— Flume

Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been…

— Justin Broadrick

Summer camp was a place where I felt like myself that wasn't like school. There were no grades, we got to try…

— Lisa Loeb

Sam [Phillips] wanted I Walk The Line up - you know, up-tempo. And I put paper in the strings of my guitar…

— Johnny Cash

Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar.

— Johnny Thunders

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

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

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

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

— Bill Mumy

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

— Freddie Mercury

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

— Oscar Isaac

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

— Bill Kaulitz