Guitar Quotes · Page 41

I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a…

— Nile Rodgers

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

— Carlos Santana

Well, I didn't go to Julliard or anything. I'm basically self-taught. When I was younger, I wrote folk songs on a guitar…

— Kemp Muhl

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

— Harry Dean Stanton

The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women

— Waylon Jennings

Music's always been in my home. My dad plays guitar, and I grew up listening to cumbia and salsa and boleros.

— Jessie Reyez

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

— Hunter Hayes

I'm Mexican, and we do a lot of singing, and it was my brother's guitar that I'd practice on, and he would…

— Sixto Rodriguez

There is a project that I did back in 2008 with a Norwegian guitar player, Jorn Viggo Lofstad, who plays in Pagan's…

— Floor Jansen

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little…

— Ace Frehley

I think every physiotherapist will tell you that it's not a very good idea, and there are many musicians in the metal…

— Floor Jansen

I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players…

— Daniel Rossen

I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit.…

— Marc Maron

“Sometimes a woman has experienced too much life to have any blush left in her cheeks, but the man who puts it…

— dannika dark

I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from…

— Keith Richards

I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with…

— Ken Hensley

After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful…

— Panda Bear

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on…

— Will Ferrell

If you play "I Don't Want To Know" by Fleetwood Mac loud enough -- you can hear Lindsey Buckingham's fingers sliding down…

— Chuck Klosterman

I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't…

— Ian MacKaye

I worked at a vintage guitar store, and the owner had ties with a lot of Japanese manufacturers and U.S. manufacturers that…

— Joe Satriani

At that time there was, but they didn't have the guitar I wanted. There are only about 2000 people there and the…

— Freedy Johnston

I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John and Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar…

— George Harrison

So when I was working with Amy Winehouse on "Back To Black," you know, she had all these beautiful songs, incredibly well-written…

— Mark Ronson

Most people can do what I do - they can do guitar solos - but they can't do a good, hard rhythm…

— Angus Young

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play…

— John Lee Hooker

I've always been an eccentric, a rocker at heart. I can't play the guitar, but I can play the griddle.

— Guy Fieri

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

— Lee Ritenour

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.

— John Oates

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played…

— Benjamin Booker

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

— Gregory Harrison

I can't try to write a song - songs come out of me. I have to play the guitar and if I…

— Shavo Odadjian

I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.

— Eliot Sumner

I tell people to listen really closely to the song when they're working out their guitar parts.

— Mike Campbell

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

— Dusty Hill

I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.

— George Thorogood

Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it’s more…

— Dave Mustaine

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

— Dave Barry

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

— John Entwistle

I've started to look at guitar playing from more than just a standpoint of using certain modes and techniques.

— Jim Root