Guitar Quotes · Page 42

I was the only kid reading guitar magazines at the back of the classroom.

— Orianthi

I play drums and guitar. My best instrument is definitely drums, so I'm featured a lot on the album drumming. It's pretty…

— Justin Bieber

The people I liked all told a story playing guitar. There are a lot of flashy guys out there I didn't like.…

— Susan Tedeschi

Being a guitarist was scary, honestly, as a girl in Nashville. It just felt like no one was gonna ask me to…

— Soccer Mommy

When I found music I thought, that's what I want to do, but the idea of it being a job never crossed…

— Caleb Followill

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same…

— Brian Eno

My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I…

— Brian Eno

What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It…

— Alan Licht

I think my best advice for young guitar players is that it's not an easy road - definitely not; female guitar player…

— Nita Strauss

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I…

— Don McLean

I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable.…

— Lauryn Hill

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens…

— Burton Cummings

All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its…

— Guy Clark

I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.

— Tori Amos

The thing I like to do when I'm making records is to keep it exciting, as opposed to, 'There's a bass player,…

— Benji Hughes

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

— Niall Horan

I waited until the end of the 'Behold Electric Guitar' recording sessions to record 'A Herd of Turtles,' as I knew the…

— Paul Gilbert

I like playing guitar I don't like talking about it. I like writing riffs, I don't like explaining them.

— Jeff Hanneman

To me, the coolest riffs are composed of two guitar parts that interlock like gears. You need both parts to make whole.…

— Richard Lloyd

I remember when I was first losing my ability to play my fast licks and my hands were shaking and falling off…

— Jason Becker

'Routine' was written on piano, and you can hear that. But then you listen to 'Happy Returns,' and you can tell it's…

— Steven Wilson

I came to Berklee to study guitar, I really wanted to be a jazz guitarist, and I really came because I really…

— Juan Luis Guerra

The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.

— Manuel de Falla

I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that…

— Ike Turner