Guitar Quotes · Page 65

I used to listen to the Beatles and Stones, whereas Angus was more into the heavier stuff - Cream, Hendrix - with…

— Malcolm Young

I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky…

— John Petrucci

You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.

— Hank Williams, Jr

I'm a singer-songwriter. So I play guitar, and I sing. Along the lines of, I guess you could call it, alternative rock.

— Brandon Jones

I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I…

— Suzanne Vega

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

— Elton John

When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.

— Joe Satriani

People are like, 'Why are you playing that five-neck guitar?' I want to hurt. I want to play.

— Rick Nielsen

All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we…

— Ry Cooder

As a song-writer I have always written with one instrument - either guitar or piano - because I believe that if a…

— Chris de Burgh

I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on…

— Justin Hayward

When they're singing the guitar lines of songs in South America? Never heard that before. And in Canada, when they're singing all…

— Mike McCready

I didn't start writing music until I was a sophomore in college. I would steal my roommate's guitar and sit on the…

— Mat Kearney

Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for…

— Bill Callahan

I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing.…

— Robbie Robertson

I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7.…

— Miley Cyrus

I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar,…

— Steve Burns

I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something…

— Jonny Greenwood

I think if you really put your mind to something you can do it. Five and a half years ago I couldn't…

— Jimmy Wayne

I didn't start really playing the guitar till I was about seventeen, and I never really had those formative years are where…

— Ryan Bingham

I've always been really into blues guitar. I feel like that comes out a little bit in my guitar parts: country, blues…

— Declan McKenna

A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out…

— William Christopher Handy

I watched the video [ with my first commercial] when I was 20, and in the video, there are two families. The…

— Mara Wilson

I don't ever have any bass in my monitors at all; I instead like to lock in with the guitar. I know…

— Vinnie Paul

I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get…

— Stephen Mangan

I don't consider myself a skilled enough instrumentalist to be able to create the atmosphere that I want with just my guitar…

— Thalia Zedek

I aim to inspire a bunch of female guitar players to get out there and take it seriously and never give up.

— Orianthi

I generally use a lot of analog instruments, a few synths from the '80s like the Roland Juno-106, and an old Fender…

— Gus Dapperton

I always have a guitar or ukulele in the trailer, and I write songs. That keeps me in an artistic mind-set.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I like to play music; play guitar - I love that. Play some golf in the summer. Just relax, enjoy the summer.…

— Henrik Lundqvist

I've been playing guitar since I was 6 and then drums, bass, and piano since I was 10 years old.

— Bazzi

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

— Dolly Parton

I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my…

— Andy Griffith

The guitar was not treated very seriously as a concert recital instrument.

— Julian Bream

I always had a love for the guitar, I grew up in Nashville, so you can throw a rock and hit a…

— Jelly Roll

Led Zeppelin is what made me buy my first electric guitar: the Jimmy Page guitar sound.

— King Diamond

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a…

— B. B. King

For the record, if I were Superman, a pale, scrawny guy holding a guitar would be Kryptonite.

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

All my best girlfriends play guitar now, which is kind of a funny world to live in.

— Lola Kirke