Guitar Quotes · Page 67

Slash is one of the greatest guitar players I've ever heard, and it's amazing when you hear about all the crazy stuff…

— Taylor Goldsmith

I think a good guitar solo sounds so much better within the context of a good song.

— Gary Moore

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

— Tina Weymouth

We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.

— Ian MacKaye

Back in the Eighties, I used to write ballads on my acoustic guitar, so it seems very natural to me to go…

— Wayne Static

Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.

— Patti Smith

Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

— Kris Allen

I get up now at 5:30 in the morning. I practice the guitar for a couple of hours - I do that…

— Steve Lukather

Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, and Muddy Waters…

— Hugh Laurie

My grandpa was a country singer, and I started learning guitar from him, just at the kitchen table when I was younger,…

— Trixie Mattel

I write on the acoustic guitar, I write some on the piano, but I've been messing around with these guitar pedals and…

— Paolo Nutini

When I'm working on a movie, I'm in my trailer playing guitar. And then on the road, I read scripts and think…

— Bryan Greenberg

I'm a guitar player, really - I mean, first and foremost - I grew up with all that great 1960s music, in…

— Todd Rundgren

I love the notion of a dude sitting there with an untuned guitar tapping his foot and just singing his passion out;…

— Ato Essandoh

My mom is an elementary school music teacher, a pianist, and a singer, and my dad plays guitar - he's a huge…

— Lucy Dacus

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad…

— Jackson Browne

When I play guitar, it's automatic. I don't try to do something; I just do it. And it's already so ingrained in…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood.…

— Madonna Ciccone

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played…

— Moby

When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that…

— Ike Turner

Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing…

— Bob Dylan

I was deluding myself that the song was almost not important, but I think the real thing that was happening was almost…

— John Fogerty

A lot of people at my school could play the "Stairway to Heaven" guitar solo, but they couldn't play three chords of…

— Kevin Shields

Most records, you build from the drums and bass up. This one, we started with the vocals in Nashville and recorded them…

— Andrew Bird

Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.

— Lauryn Hill

Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we…

— Eicca Toppinen

On any given day, if I play the guitar, I can put myself somewhere. I always thought, 'This is the way you…

— Ry Cooder

I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.

— Brian May

And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that…

— Beau Bridges

It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.

— John Scofield

I play the guitar and the piano and have a group of guys who I play with. They're uber talented.

— Ryan Eggold

The late-sixties Teles are the best value you can get for a vintage guitar.

— Brad Paisley

I was drawn to the guitar, and still am, because it struck me as the most soulful instrument.

— Jose Feliciano

I tried to play 'Barracuda' on 'Guitar Hero,' and because you have to anticipate and push buttons, it's really counterintuitive.

— Nancy Wilson

I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.

— Lucinda Williams

What's the essence of the Go-Go's? Great melodies, guitar hooks, driving drums. All of that.

— Charlotte Caffey

The best thing is I can say 'I'm working' when I'm having a cup of tea and a cigarette and fiddling on…

— Ben Howard

I wanted to learn how to play guitar so I could smash it up and burn it. I was only a little…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard

— Dave Mustaine

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