Guitar Quotes · Page 55

When you pick up a guitar, you don't put down your First Amendment rights.

— Tom Morello

I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so…

— Matt Schulze

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again,…

— Ace Frehley

I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing…

— Mike Gordon

The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.

— Rodney Atkins

There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.

— Michael Jackson

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my…

— Slash

I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves…

— Johnny Marr

Jimi Hendrix is one of the main influences on why I wanted to play guitar. He really shook me. I think it…

— John 5

I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that.…

— M. Ward

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't…

— Cliff Richard

Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with…

— Stephenie Meyer

I guess anybody who plays can say that they play guitar, but if you want to be a guitarist, you've got to…

— Jake Pitts

I've never set out to do anything other than get better at guitar and record and have fun. I feel like the…

— Adam Granduciel

When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims…

— Yuna

Buckethead [former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist] is probably twice as good a guitar player as me and Slash combined, and can stand…

— Dave Mustaine

I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was,…

— Dick Dale

I'm always trying to emulate guitar. Especially when I'm playing the trombone, that's what I think about. Like, I listen to guitar…

— Trombone Shorty

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

The Metallica film was like this incredible life experience where I learned the most through guys that stereotypically you would think couldn't…

— Joe Berlinger

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was…

— Bruce Springsteen

It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana!

— Miyavi

I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart.

— Eddie Kirkland

My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.

— Zacky Vengeance

If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars…

— Gary Moore

I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.

— Jimmy Page

But I also think that once you've found stuff that works, stop reading forums, stop reading reviews and just get out there…

— Guthrie Govan

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

— Lola Kirke

I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.

— Jamie Hince

... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters

— Albert Lee

We have a storage close by where I live, that's very organised. My guitar tech, Matty organised it all, labeled everything.

— John Petrucci

To play the guitar well is easy, to play the guitar poorly is difficult.

— Pepe Romero

I've never liked having like a set kind of schedule of training. Even when I was doing guitar lessons, I never used…

— Dean Geyer

My dad plays guitar in the church band, so it's like music as a service. He plays at old-people homes, so that's…

— Lucy Dacus

I've been singing my entire life. The guitar came to me later on down the road.

— Luke Combs

I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films.

— Tom Holland