Guitar Quotes · Page 71

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

— Steve Burns

The whole reputation of being a rock guitar player, I could really care less about it. Still, when I hear new groups…

— Tom Verlaine

How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It's not a big, epic Hollywood score but…

— A. R. Rahman

When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well.

— Marnie Stern

Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes…

— John Petrucci

Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur…

— Rob Sheffield

Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around,…

— Neil Diamond

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

— Gordie Howe

My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.

— Lindsey Buckingham

I guess trying to throw my body into the guitar is so natural for me that I don't even know how to…

— St. Vincent

This PRS is perfect for anyone who wants an awesome quality, versatile, rockin' guitar at an affordable price. I love it; try…

— Orianthi

I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says…

— Joe Satriani

What I enjoy about the live experience is getting onstage, being handed a guitar that is in tune, taking it off mute,…

— John Mayer

I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just…

— Eddie Van Halen

I've studied several guitar players and songwriters, mostly from Al di Meola to Dimebag Darrell, from Freddie Mercury of Queen to Kurt…

— Mark Salling

I would think that the drumstick is probably pretty good. Because you can put that anywhere. If you are a strong guy,…

— Dolph Lundgren

All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.

— Glen Campbell

I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.

— Trey Anastasio

I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600…

— Mac DeMarco

“What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture,…

— Roman Payne

Yeah, my very first teacher when I was 6 was a big influence, because it was so boring that I quit guitar.

— Paul Gilbert

I really just want to be an inspiration. I'm a regular guy, that had a dream, that came from a small town,…

— Kerry James Marshall

I thought it was too 'glam rock' to practice. The problem is that now I'm a pretty bad guitar player.

— Laurent Brancowitz

I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time..

— Kurt Cobain

I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and…

— Al Yankovic

All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.

— Joe Bonamassa

Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The…

— Patti Smith

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

— James Taylor

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

— Phil Lesh

I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a…

— Julian Casablancas

To me, my guitar has always been my orchestra.

— Jose Feliciano

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were…

— Tommy Bolin

A lot of the time, I will write a guitar riff first. I don't write drum riffs first.

— Joey Jordison

I hope our legacy will be enduring and that people think of us as an important band. But I think Ricky's guitar…

— Kate Pierson

When I was, like, 12, I remember grabbing a mic, pretending it was a guitar, and performing in front of my friends.…

— J Balvin

Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had…

— Ted Nugent

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing…

— Jimmy Page

In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.

— Dickey Betts

If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content…

— Brad Paisley