Guitar Quotes · Page 53

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar.

— Birdy

I've refined it since [ was living in Beaumont, Texas], but I was just obsessed with the guitar. I remember one day…

— Steve Young

I took a musician friend of mine to a Rolling Stone concert once, and all he did was cringe. I asked him…

— Robert Hilburn

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

— Brian May

Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying…

— Peter Criss

As a guitar player, you never stop learning, never stop honing your skills.

— John Petrucci

A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.

— Willie Dixon

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

— Leo Kottke

Watching David write was inspiring to me. He was at his most content composing. Music floated from his mind and fingertips. He…

— Angela Bowie

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

— John Frusciante

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too.…

— Jim Sturgess

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

When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and…

— John Petrucci

It's not easy being a female guitar player. You have to believe in yourself.

— Orianthi

I didn't even write the lyrics down. I got in the booth, I put down a little guitar riff and the idea…

— Benji Madden

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

— John Coltrane

1962 to 1965, where suddenly the guitar became this icon of youth culture all over the world, thanks mostly to the Beatles.…

— Pat Metheny

Can't stand it. Too many amps, too much volume, it's just flat-out ear assault. Speedy guitars leave me not feeling detached but…

— Jeff Beck

The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every…

— Annie E. Clark

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

I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about…

— Alex Lifeson

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10,…

— Lukas Haas

We've done every record on our own. Its produced by our guitar player and sometimes we'll have some help mixin' it and…

— Jess Margera

Among the guitarists, Wes Montgomery is fantastic. He's always good to let you know what the art form is all about. It's…

— Bill Cosby

When I was 17 I got a guitar for my birthday and started discovering Bob Dylan and James Taylor and the whole…

— Jason Reeves