Guitar Quotes · Page 60

I started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As…

— Ashley McBryde

Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful…

— Carrie Brownstein

... shortly before she died Janis Joplin gave me the Gibson Hummingbird she recorded "Me and Bobbby McGee" on ... Janis was…

— Sam Andrew

I played guitar when I was a kid a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not…

— Matt Ross

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

— Erik Rutan

I shouldn't admit this publicly, but I really want to get an electric guitar.

— Monica Barbaro

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

— Miles Davis

It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.

— Arlo Guthrie

I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the…

— Ruston Kelly

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

— Jimmy Page

In my opinion, if you buy a ticket to see me you're buying experience. People don't want to see me stand there…

— Cody Johnson

My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota…

— Josh Turner

Sometimes I'll try something on piano and move to guitar, but usually that comes after scratching down some ideas for lyrics.

— Melody Gardot

At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that…

— Gregg Allman

I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I…

— Jesse Spencer

I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I'm trying to write. It's become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I…

— Eddie Vedder

My first love was the sound of guitar.

— Boz Scaggs

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll…

— Amanda Seyfried

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

— Trevor Rabin

Just based on the primary adage of the necessity breeding innovation, it was just like 'Well, what makes me the guitar player…

— Synyster Gates

Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.

— Richard Hawley

With music, I'm comfortable singing to people but I'm not that comfortable playing the guitar.

— Bronson Arroyo

I went into Guitar Center, and David Koresh and Steven Schneider were looking at a drum set, and they asked me to…

— David Thibodeau

I have them a few minutes to absorb everything while I teased Ubie, who only had to recover from his near-death experience.…

— Darynda Jones

There are a lot of really good guitar sounds and new kind atmospheres on the new Bon Jovi record. I think people…

— Richie Sambora