I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you'll want to give up the guitar. You'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.” — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris. — Yuna Copy Share Image
When you're in the Allman Brothers, you would think you'd be able to play freely on guitar. — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
When I have downtime, music is a big part of my life. Not so much singing, but I play the guitar. — KJ Apa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off. — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
... when I heard Apache by the Shadows, that was it ! ...then there was a guitar player named Steve Gordon, he… — Ray Flacke Copy Share Image
My approach in 1999 was basically to play what I had, that was all I could do. At the time I was… — Jim Root Copy Share Image
I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I… — Jesse Spencer Copy Share Image
Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend,… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I don't know if, in a previous life, I was, like, the embodiment of a guitar, because any time someone plays a… — Craig David Copy Share Image
I didn't actually start to play till I was about 10. My father came home from work a Friday and he said:… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business…… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I started off doing stuff in theatre in Letterkenny from quite a young age. It was just a hobby, something I enjoyed.… — Amybeth McNulty Copy Share Image
The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you… — Jack White Copy Share Image
As a conscientious objector I did my community service in 1971 in a psychiatric hospital and a friend there, who also was… — Michael Rother Copy Share Image
My parents were on the Grand Ole Opry. They traveled all over the country singing hillbilly music. That's what they called it… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't.… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar… — Zach Condon Copy Share Image
My first love in music was jazz, but I like it all," "I reacted emotionally to Art Blakey and, of course, to… — Larry Carlton Copy Share Image
The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar… — Scott Ian Copy Share Image
I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar. — Trevor Dunn Copy Share Image
I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck… — Phil Anselmo Copy Share Image
I think I've been playing bass for as long as I've played guitar, and I love them both. — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
A lot of guitar players, in every genre, are afraid to leave space. They're afraid to leave a hole, afraid they'll fall… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible. — David Bromberg Copy Share Image
I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have… — Jamie Blackley Copy Share Image
Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of other guitar players, Duane Allman and tons of them, but I don't really love totally guitar-specific albums. — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never… — Brian May Copy Share Image
I'm going to go with ZZ Top -- they're my faves . . . because of the whole thing that they do… — Robin Thicke Copy Share Image
When it is possible that people don't understand my English, I take my guitar and speak with my music! — Celedonio Romero Copy Share Image
I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk. — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
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