Guitar Quotes · Page 47

Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists

— Tim Brookes

For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton's 'Tears In…

— Neil Jackson

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

— Billy Corgan

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

— Guy Clark

I picked up the guitar at 15 because of Taylor Swift.

— Nina Nesbitt

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

— Richard Betts

Every album, I'm worried that I'm a dork and a fraud - 'What if I can't sing anymore?' Then I stop thinking…

— Pink

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

— Slash

The guitar saved me from a life of crime as a teenager.

— Myles Kennedy

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all…

— Brian Setzer

I would hole up in my bedroom growing up and teach myself guitar.

— Dustin Lynch

I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar…

— Neil Diamond

Using modern guitar techniques and modern methods on an early instrument is not a very clever thing to do, because it is…

— Julian Bream

I know what love feels like. That is one thing I have found. That is one thing that is much clearer because…

— A. J. Langer

My main objective with a home studio - I could get into doing full band demos - but my first objective is…

— John Petrucci

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

— Dave Mustaine

It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife,…

— Henry Rollins

Basically, I try to treat the electric guitar like an acoustic guitar. What you have to do is attack the instrument and…

— Rory Gallagher

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.

— Fred Frith

As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician,…

— Richie Sambora

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.

— Frank Zappa

I'm amazed that I can sit down, put a guitar in my hands and start playing kind of free style, and it…

— John Rzeznik

I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.

— Joe Trohman

It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on television and went…

— David Cassidy

I generally use a lot of analog instruments, a few synths from the '80s like the Roland Juno-106, and an old Fender…

— Gus Dapperton