Guitar Quotes · Page 5

Watching you playing guitar.

— ALYSSA Niall Horan One Direction

Life is too short to play bad music

— Bob Brozman

Link Wray is the all-time legend.

— Conan O'Brien

I wanted to be a guitar player.

— Kristian Nairn

MY love my guitar.

— Anonymous

Really young kids are into guitars.

— Charlie Simpson

I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

— Adam Driver

I was a guitar player first off.

— Boz Scaggs

It takes a lifetime and a half to master the classical guitar.

— Julian Bream

Rock guitar is one of my favourite sounds.

— Trombone Shorty

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

— Tom Chapin

I was definitely not one of those kids prodigy guitar players.

— Nita Strauss

Most of the stuff I did isn't acoustic. Just guitar related.

— Everlast

What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano.

— Ronnie Montrose

I always call myself a "student" of the guitar.

— Nick Offerman

“We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out.”

— Decca Recording Co. rejecting The Beatles in 1962

Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of…

— Matt Papa

I first picked up a guitar at seven after watching Dad play at backyard barbecues.

— Cody Simpson

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.

— Brandy Clark

I'm still like an excited kid playing guitar in front of the bedroom mirror.

— James Bay

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

— Miles Davis

There's not many crazy guitar instrumentalists out there that put on a crazy monster show.

— John 5

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

— Neal Schon

All the guys I know that play guitar are also secretly drummers and vice versa.

— Mark Lanegan

I couldn't not play a Les Paul guitar. Les always used to point to my Strat and say, 'Why do you have…

— Jeff Beck

The first reason why I started to use the [electric] keyboard is because I really like the bending sound of the guitar…

— Hiromi

So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make…

— Lee Ann Womack

You can play guitar in your canteen, you know, your hair might be longer, but there's a lot more to playing than…

— Syd Barrett

I love playing live, but our tours generally last about a year. I could never do this without the understanding and support…

— John Petrucci

There are a lot of influences from different countries in my music. For example, I chose the guitar in my music, I…

— Paulina Rubio

I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to…

— Jimmy Page

An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all…

— Patrick Wolf

Television is such an evolving medium. When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and…

— Chris Pratt

Most of the EDM tracks right now are not very musical, they have one note that keeps playing. You really don't need…

— Cedric Gervais

I play guitar all the time, and I'm constantly thinking of songs... Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up…

— Joey Jordison

When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've…

— Ian Anderson

I've always been in rock bands. I was in a rock band with my brother in high school. Then I was playing…

— Bryce Dessner

Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me…

— Johnny Cash

My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band…

— Willie Nelson

However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was…

— Kina Grannis