Guitar Quotes · Page 43

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

— Billy Gibbons

Guitar players I find kind of boring - and that's not meant as a dig. I find myself boring.

— Joe Satriani

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

— Adam Jones

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

— David Gilmour

When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time,…

— Katie Cassidy

I think that Bach has a very nice sound on the lute. But I find that what I want to do with…

— Julian Bream

Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within…

— Pete Townshend

I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content…

— Brad Paisley

A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer,…

— Hunter Hayes

The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was…

— Kelly Jones

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played…

— Brendon Urie

I started playing guitar when I was 12, and I started getting into more metal, like Maiden and Metallica... Of course, as…

— John Petrucci

I've been touching instruments since the day I was born. My mother is Brazilian, and she listens to Brazilian music. My father…

— Linda Perry

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more…

— Richard Fleeshman

One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until,…

— George Benson

Most of my music theory knowledge is based on piano. But I write on guitar a lot, too. I'm not a great…

— Zooey Deschanel

When you get in the middle of a career and you're successful, people come and offer you things. My biggest fear was…

— Tim McGraw

The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to…

— Adam Parfrey

There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England… Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an…

— George Harrison

When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then…

— Lucinda Williams

When I was 15 years old, my cousin and I formed a singing group called The Altaires. And, because we became the…

— George Benson

Duane Allman didn't see himself as the bandleader .. he led by example, and you gained a lot of respect from Duane…

— Richard Betts

I've seen kids turn their lives around. It's usually a kid who's outside of the team-sport world, or maybe has a darker…

— Jeff Ament

I don't think there's any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock,…

— Joe Bonamassa

I like music more balanced between the voice and the guitar and the percussion. I don't like heavy metal.

— Carlos Carvalhal

I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.

— Tobias Forge

“I tell you, just when you think you know someone, she shows up looking pretty and carrying a guitar.”

— emmy laybourne

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a…

— Angel Olsen

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

— Steve Vai

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

— Yul Vazquez

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

— Eddie Rabbitt

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

— Randy Houser

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

— Joe Perry

I'm learning to play guitar. It's very difficult, but I'm determined to do it right so I don't make anybody mad.

— Rachael Leigh Cook

All the songs I've written, if they don't sound good on acoustic guitar, they won't sound good at 11.

— John Waite

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

— John Frusciante

Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

— Jerry Reed

No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.

— Tom Petty