Guitar Quotes · Page 58

My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

— Merle Haggard

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down…

— Slash

I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.

— Tom Petty

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

— Slash

The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.

— George Benson

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it

— Gavin DeGraw

I'm trying to make music that I like, and I love hip-hop. At the same time, I love guitar. I love rock…

— Post Malone

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play…

— Carlos Santana

Punk was key to the early part of me playing guitar. I was really into melodic punk-rock. I related to punk more…

— John Rzeznik

Always continue to perform no matter what or where the activity is: local theater, regional theater, local clubs or coffee shops. Continue…

— Tony Vincent

One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's…

— Chad Channing

I didn't look up and say, "Oh, man, if I learn how to play a guitar I could make not much money,…

— Buddy Guy

When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was…

— Paul Weller

Music was my first love, and at Marlborough we put bands together and sang the pop songs of the day. Although I…

— Chris de Burgh

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I…

— Kip Winger

To be in Boston, which is a great city and which is full of many colleges and young kids, and to be…

— John Petrucci

When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as…

— Sam Hunt

Little things like making clothes, baking bread, cooking, even useless things like bird-watching, sketching flowers, playing guitar in the home - that…

— Tom Hodgkinson

The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. I loved…

— Josh Homme

For 20 years I've been screaming at these guitar companies, saying, 'It's abnormal to put your arm around an acoustic guitar that…

— Dick Dale

I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog.…

— Gene Autry

I think there are quite a few new Instro/Surf groups that are really great. The Mermen are good and there doing something…

— Merrell Fankhauser

We had a band called the Grainers. In our 12-year-old minds, this was like a double entendre for like being annoying and…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That's why I got my music degree. I wanted…

— Luis Fonsi

I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing…

— Shawn Mendes

I've been playing a Fender since 1963, and before that it was my dream guitar. I can't endorse it more than that.

— Rory Gallagher

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere…

— Paul McCartney

Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.

— Richard Lloyd

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

— Jeff VanderMeer

We're losing the whole point: music is not to impress people, music has to stand up on its own and guitar solos…

— Gary Moore

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

— St. Vincent

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

— Jascha Heifetz

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

— Rick Nielsen

After playing for 40 years, I've been able to evolve the way I see the fretboard and how I hear the guitar…

— Paul Gilbert

If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.

— Zakk Wylde

There's always more than one way to play the same notes because of the nature of guitar.

— Paul Gilbert

I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song

— Will Ferrell

Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.

— David Gilmour

There was a time that I was The Drifter in NXT, and I did not want to break my guitar because that…

— Elias

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

— Arthur Darvill