Guitar Quotes · Page 63

Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.

— Sam Amidon

I probably spent more time as a kid playing air guitar to Jimmy Page than any other guitar player.

— Paul Gilbert

I don't feel like I deserve to have to do a guitar pull with four brand-new artists when I've sold millions of…

— Sara Evans

I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with…

— Steve Young

I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

— J. J. Cale

Everywhere I go I have a guitar, even when I travel, I take a guitar with me, this is how I get…

— Haim Saban

You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good.

— Jakob Dylan

I did play the guitar and sing; I was in a band called The Estrogens: three females and one very brave guy.

— Carolyn Porco

I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make…

— St. Vincent

I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' [Dangler] basslines and said, "I don't…

— Paul Banks

If you take the riff from the song 'Cowboys From Hell' and really break it down, it's almost a hillbilly guitar riff:…

— Vinnie Paul

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin…

— Cat Stevens

Hendrix was a different kind of guitar player. It was like, 'Holy cow, this guy can sing, he can play all this…

— Rick Nielsen

There are two types of session guitar players. One reads and only plays what the 'dots' say. The other adds that something…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste…

— John Mayer

When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was…

— Chris Cornell

I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music…

— Christian Fennesz

So one time for my disillusioned artists, I hear ya Two times for the kid that air-guitars in the mirror Three times…

— Danny Denzongpa

I like rock and roll t-shirts, tight jeans, and sneakers or boots. Really just laid back, sort of rock and roll. I'm…

— Orianthi

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I…

— Jimi Hendrix

I always have a guitar with me. Actually, I've got several, I play every day. And I enjoy it. I'm never very…

— Andy Summers

My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one…

— Joe Pass

To me, the producer is there to make sure the album gets done and gets done as good as possible. So if…

— John Congleton

As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write…

— Ian Anderson

I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.

— James Hetfield

I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent…

— Frank Zappa

I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar…

— Gary Cherone

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

— Kevin Bacon

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

— John Frusciante

I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.

— Vivian Campbell

I know as far as I'm concerned, I'm getting really excited about writing, and I'm taking guitar and vocal lessons.

— Ryan Ross

It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style.

— Kenny Loggins

I used to run home from school, pick up my guitar, and lock myself in my room and play.

— Angus Young

The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar…

— Ian Anderson

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

— Rick Springfield

When I pick up Hank Williams' guitar or that first suit that Johnny Cash wore on stage, it empowers me.

— Marty Stuart

My bajo sexto, a big Mexican acoustic guitar, comes from a shop in L.A. run by three generations of Mexicans.

— Paul Young

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

— Glen Hansard

I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.

— Chrissie Hynde

Music is a big passion for me, and whenever we all friends get together we play guitar, sing songs and play games.

— Ranvir Shorey