Guitar Quotes · Page 54

I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.

— David Gilmour

I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes,…

— Alex Turner

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

— Roger Daltrey

If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.

— Joe Satriani

'Cruise Control' was the first track me and Wiz Khalifa ever did. I made the beat on that, and I played guitar…

— Mac Miller

When I first started playing guitar, so many people told me I couldn't do this or couldn't do that. But I kept…

— Shawn Mendes

I carry my finger pick around all the time now, because it reminds me that I want to keep playing guitar.

— Monica Barbaro

Jeff and Mike had taken drum lessons at a young age. When the Beatles came out in '64, we all wanted to…

— Steve Porcaro

For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release…

— Martin Gore

I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play…

— Nikki Sixx

I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an…

— Slash

I can play guitar - but I can't really. I wouldn't say I'm talented at it. I just kind of watch videos…

— Chloe Kim

I got to be about 13 and everyone started playing guitars and being in rock bands. There was no place for me…

— Douglas Booth

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there…

— Don McLean

The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those…

— Jimmy Page

I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he…

— Dave Davies

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range…

— Brian Eno

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

Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you…

— Gary Snyder

I’ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of…

— Ted Templeman

I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a…

— Paul Haslinger

Sitting around home I mostly play acoustic. I've got seven or eight guitars of various sorts, including a baritone. Sometimes at home,…

— Richard Thompson

I was very pleased when PRS presented me with my SE Angelus acoustic, a beautiful guitar of stunning quality. It was in…

— Alex Lifeson

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because…

— Chord Overstreet

I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.

— Jay Watson

Music and guitar are my favorite things, so it's fun to get together with other people who share the passion and talk…

— Paul Gilbert

Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.

— Gary Gulman

That is the music that I have always wanted to play: real, genuine guitar music.

— Chris Rea

While I was playing football in the U.S., I learnt to play the guitar, and I'm picking it up again now.

— Alex Scott

I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

I studied classical guitar in school, and that type of stuff has led to writing for Kronos.

— Bryce Dessner

I came to NAMM once and saw this guitar that self-tuned, and I thought, 'Wow, this is the future!' And I've never…

— Finneas

The only way you can get Scotty Moore's tone is with a big hollowbody guitar.

— Jeff Beck

Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.

— Philip Selway

I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll…

— Indra Nooyi

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

— Martin Gore

I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.

— Chrissie Hynde

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

— Mark Knopfler

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

— Andres Segovia

Wanting to play the guitar was neither a wild dream nor a realistic ambition. It was simply inevitable.

— Julian Bream