Guitar Quotes · Page 45

The first guitar I ever owned was a Kay SG copy. That cost like $35. Man, that was a terrible guitar.

— John Rzeznik

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

— Ace Frehley

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

— Adrian Belew

It's insane for me to say this, but I've never been in a room with anyone that's more talented on the electric…

— Tim Commerford

I sing and play guitar, but songwriting is how I pay my rent. And so I didn't really need a lot of…

— J. J. Cale

Young people are still experiencing the thrill of three chords and over-amplified guitars. They always will.

— Horace Panter

I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to…

— Billy Bragg

Yeah, my very first teacher when I was 6 was a big influence, because it was so boring that I quit guitar.

— Paul Gilbert

I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or…

— John 5

A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something…

— The Edge

In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going…

— Johnny Cash

I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the…

— Kurt Cobain

I think it's safe to say that if you talk to anybody in Ireland, they'll have a passing knowledge of the guitar.…

— James Vincent McMorrow

I wasn't planning on being a guitar player; I was going to be a singer. And I was for a little bit…

— Steve Jones

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro…

— Ronnie Montrose

My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and…

— George Benson

I've learned to take care of myself. You know, I try to stay conscious of whatever my energy is at all times,…

— Brent Sexton

Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He…

— Larry Mullen, Jr

Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing - I'll mess…

— The Edge

I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the…

— John Petrucci

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something…

— Jonny Greenwood

One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English…

— Ally Condie

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all…

— Kurt Cobain

I don't know how it got around that I play a lot of instruments. I really don't. I play the guitar and…

— Marty Stuart

I'm an acoustic guitar owner - in the sense that I own them, and they sit at my house, and I never…

— Joe Bonamassa

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

— Keith Richards

In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to…

— Billy Boyd

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

— Bill Nighy

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

— Brad Paisley

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like…

— Matt Tong

'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me…

— Mark Salling

I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production.

— Luis Fonsi

I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.

— Laurent Brancowitz

I'd love to be able to draw or play guitar or dance. All three at the same time - that's the talent…

— Owen King

My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like…

— Amber Tamblyn

The guitar l learned on was probably worth $4 or something, but it was priceless to me. It meant so much.

— John McLaughlin

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

— Frank Zappa

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

— Janis Ian

I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.

— James Vincent McMorrow