Guitar Quotes · Page 77

You can play slide on any guitar, but to be serious about it you have a tough set of strings, otherwise you…

— Rory Gallagher

I've played guitar in so many different styles, and I want to revisit them all.

— Jimmy Page

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

— Andy Summers

I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's…

— Jeremy Spencer

“the flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to…

— Tim Brookes

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

— Dan Fogelberg

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know…

— Charlie Daniels

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

— Little Richard

A cello can sound like so many instruments, but it's only one, you know, like a guitar; it has percussive qualities. It…

— Luka Sulic

I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that…

— Brian May

My mom bought me a guitar when I was 12 and I used to pretend that I was a rock star in…

— Alex Roe

When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time,…

— Katie Cassidy

I'm always interested in very, very futuristic music and bridging the gap between the physicality of organic guitar music and trying to…

— Justin Broadrick

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of…

— Bruno Mars

When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to…

— Brendon Urie

My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.

— Zacky Vengeance

I never really expected any of the music business to happen, but I'm glad it did. It was a very cool thing…

— John Martyn

I was a huge Beatles fan. We could talk about who I listened to growing up and what my sources were, but…

— James Taylor

If you learn classical guitar, you play Bach, and then John Dowland. He's the greatest. He's interesting for many, many reasons.

— Bryce Dessner

Yeah. I started using them [SDD-3000s] shortly after first working with Edge on The Unforgettable Fire. Basically, I stole his sound. It…

— Daniel Lanois

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era…

— Chuck Berry

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

— Adrian Belew

I met Jason Mraz when he had a concert in Korea as a cover contest winner of his songs! He was super…

— Megan Lee

Going onstage without my primary instrument is like being a guitarist and going up onstage with no guitar waiting for you. What…

— Son Lux

I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one…

— Bela Fleck

The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to…

— Julian Cope

I'm Mexican, and we do a lot of singing, and it was my brother's guitar that I'd practice on, and he would…

— Sixto Rodriguez

I'm not a 'practicing' musician anymore. I played bass and guitar. I still pick up a guitar around the house every once…

— Scott Borchetta

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out…

— Willie Nelson

Music was a part of my life even before acting happened. But I mostly play my guitar only for myself and sometimes…

— Aditya Roy Kapur

I listened to 'En la Ceremony' and had always wished it had some flamenco guitar.

— Jim James

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little…

— Ace Frehley

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

— Patti Smith

My dad was a club musician. He was always playing guitar and playing loads of soul records and '60s rock n' roll.…

— Sam Fender

'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had…

— Pete Doherty

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

— Christian Fennesz

I feel in Spain they kill the art instinct. The education system is really bad, and they've got to change because in…

— Juancho Hernangomez

Until I was around 12 or 13, I only listened to classical music, mostly Tchaikovsky. But around that age, I started listening…

— Varg Vikernes

I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack,…

— Eddie Van Halen