Guitar Quotes · Page 56

I started dance class when I was a little kid, and then, when I turned 11, I started taking vocal lessons, guitar…

— Cailee Spaeny

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

— Rokia Traore

In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.

— Dickey Betts

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

— Martin Gore

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

— Leonard Cohen

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

— Johnny Winter

Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.

— Neil Young

I'd rather be known as a songwriter than a guitarist, although I love to play the guitar.

— Rick Nielsen

I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very…

— Marc Ribot

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play…

— Eddie Vedder

I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist,…

— Paul Banks

I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch…

— Carly Craig

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that…

— Wes Borland

I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars…

— Hulk Hogan

When I usually use a theremin during a set, it feels...it feels good, because I get to take a break from playing…

— Jon Spencer

I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records…

— Jam Master Jay

I lived deep in the country in northern Wisconsin. I didn't have any neighbors or anything, so in the summers, I played…

— Trixie Mattel

No sound system. No band. No guitar. No entertainment. No cushioned chairs. No heating or air-con. Nothing but the people of God…

— David Platt

Forty years ago, my life in music was substantially different to today. I went out every night with my guitar seeking a…

— Christy Moore

I absolutely remember when I decided upon playing Ernie Ball strings, and it was right then and there at the guitar store…

— Zacky Vengeance

After discovering the Ramones, I discovered really crude ways to multi-track by taking another cassette recorder and plugging that into the eight-track,…

— Lou Barlow

I'm not a real musician. If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be…

— Marion Cotillard

I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact…

— Kate Voegele

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

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

— Colin Greenwood

My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished.

— Carrie Brownstein

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary.…

— Emmylou Harris

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

— Doc Watson

I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad bought me…

— Glen Campbell

A great guitar solo is really a song within a song. You can always go off and do your pageantry, but it…

— Orianthi

It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

— Sam Hunt

I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in…

— Joe Cocker

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

— John Entwistle

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the…

— Chuck Brown

The guitar speaks for me and it says things - hopefully - for everybody that I play for.

— Julian Bream

I've always written everything as two guitars and I never thought I'd find that right person.

— Erik Rutan

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

— Norah Jones

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

— Billy Corgan

I'm into a lot of music. I used to dabble in electric guitar, but not in a band or anything.

— Chace Crawford

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

— Billy Gibbons