Guitar Quotes · Page 64

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other…

— Keith Richards

For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing.

— Ben Howard

Usually what I do is I write my vocal melody over guitar parts and then I come up with lyrics.

— Hope Sandoval

The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings.

— Julian Bream

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.

— George Harrison

I was the only kid reading guitar magazines at the back of the classroom.

— Orianthi

The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.

— Sasha Frere-Jones

I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

— Bibi Bourelly

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was…

— Thurston Moore

My dad would always ask, 'How's the money?' but I was never interested. Millions came and went, stolen by the robbers in…

— Donovan

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in…

— Hal Sparks

I can't think of a greater guitar icon than someone who has the musical intellect to change what was there before and…

— Jimmy Page

I've always been an acoustic guitar player, and I've pretty much continued to play acoustic guitar throughout all of the Sonic Youth…

— Lee Ranaldo

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents…

— Micky Dolenz

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and…

— Terry Pratchett

Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed…

— Harry Chapin

I was more into music, before I got into college. In high school, I used to play guitar and sing. I did…

— Steven Yeun

“When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the…

— Roman Payne

When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13,…

— Jeff Buckley

If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's…

— Steve Vai

I grew up across the street from, you know, the Villarias, which was a great Mexican family there. In fact, there was…

— Willie Nelson

I guess I think like deep inside, I know that it's like, it's a different kind of performing, it's not really... You're…

— Avicii

I kind of just want to get to know people and I have a genuine interest in people that listen to my…

— Ellie Goulding

As soon as I say I'm from Texas people say, "Oh, I'm sure the school was horrible" and they picture me wearing…

— Tig Notaro

I'm a decent writer, barely a decent guitar player, and a terrible singer.

— Bobby Bones

I'm a useless guitar-player. When I put myself in a band I immediately became its weakest part. I was like my forehand…

— Mats Wilander

I drove my Mum crazy, because I wouldn't go out and play football or join the Boy Scouts, I'd just sit at…

— Gary Moore

A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very…

— Julian Bream

Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.

— Lemmy Kilmister

I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.

— Brian May

I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at,

— Johnny Winter

As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.

— David Rawlings

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

— Jeff Beck

I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar…

— Robbie Robertson

I take every lesson in the book: singing, acting, guitar, piano, jazz, organ and tap-dancing.

— Barbi Benton

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

— Pete Townshend

The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.

— Merle Haggard

I have limited interests. I really like all sorts of gear. Guitar gear. Recording gear. Stuff like that. I like music, you…

— J Mascis

I went from wanting to be a Beatle to becoming a 'widdly-widdly' guitar player.

— Paul Gilbert

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I…

— Ludwig Goransson