Guitar Quotes · Page 6

I sounded like a fantasist at school when you'd go round the class, and they'd say, 'What do Mummy and Daddy do?'…

— Emily Atack

I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better…

— James Blunt

I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where…

— Bonnie Raitt

I use the volume control on my guitar, both for dynamics and as a manual noise gate.

— Paul Gilbert

I started playing violin when I was about five years old and I learned to read a little bit of music, but…

— Mura Masa

I play enough guitar to get by. I don't like to play guitar live.

— Will Chase

Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies.

— Darren Rowse

When we did the 'Skin and Bones' tour I didn't even own an acoustic guitar, I had to borrow one from my…

— Pat Smear

I've always expressed myself on guitar, and so I look at it as another voice that is available to say what you…

— Frankie Ballard

I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As…

— Florence Welch

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

— Charley Pride

A man can’t have too many guitars or too many shotguns.

— Robert Earl Keen

I messed around with the guitar from the age of about eight, but when I hit 13, it was the only thing…

— Sam Fender

There's no secret, but inspiration has to find you working. And that's one of the key things that I've always remembered. And…

— Justin Hayward

There's every other guitar player and then there's Chet. He transcended musical boundaries for more than fifty years. God only lays Chet…

— Marty Stuart

Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel…

— Steve Stockman

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

— William Christopher Handy

We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might…

— Pat Mastelotto

What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into…

— John Fogerty

My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.

— Miranda Cosgrove

I can't do anything but play guitar.

— Tommy Bolin

There are no rules or certain methods. I usually start with the guitar or piano and sing melodies over the chords. The…

— Jason Reeves

I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to…

— Jimmy Page

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 writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until…

— Kimbra