Guitar Quotes · Page 78

The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I…

— Bruce Springsteen

I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn't touch a guitar for two years, but when I realized I…

— Ronnie Montrose

But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I…

— Terry Kath

While I was playing football in the U.S., I learnt to play the guitar, and I'm picking it up again now.

— Alex Scott

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully…

— Ian Anderson

You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands…

— James Vincent McMorrow

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

— Ernie Isley

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

— Rickey Medlocke

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

— David Pajo

I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good…

— Dan Bejar

I don't really love the guitar hero trip, anyway, so it's not something I'm actively searching for or after. I don't like…

— Derek Trucks

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

— Doc Watson

I haven't learned anything new on guitar since high school. And I think it's time to learn something.

— Jill Sobule

I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.

— Phoebe Bridgers

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

— Alan Price

If you'd asked me when I was six, 16, and 26, I wanted nothing more than to be a big, recognized rock…

— Tobias Forge

I wish I had met [Francesca] Woodman forty years ago. It would have been great to live with her for a year.…

— Richard Prince

When I do find myself having downtime, I just put my guitar in my hands.

— Ruston Kelly

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me…

— Glenn Tipton

I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.

— Rokia Traore

Some times I need to be alone, somewhere to think and let bad thoughts goo...<3

— Me

When I was little, 4 or 5 years old, the first guitar I had was given to me by a blacklisted violinist…

— Ry Cooder

My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off.

— Liz Phair

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down…

— Tom Petty

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play…

— John Lee Hooker

I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play…

— Mick Taylor

I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows…

— Carl Wilson

What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you…

— Dan Rosensweig

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to…

— Andres Segovia

If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the…

— Dean Wareham

I've been using slide guitar, banjo, stuff like that for yonks. But if people haven't seen me live on stage, they wouldn't…

— Shakin' Stevens

Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle…

— Iron & Wine

I had the question asked of me before, 'What do you like better: singing or playing guitar?' If I'm gonna be totally…

— Phil Anselmo

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

— Ellie Goulding

For me, it's more about the musicianship - focusing on the guitar, playing with my band, rather than just going out and…

— Cody Simpson

My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't…

— Laura Dern

Whenever it was spring break, someone would always have a guitar down at the beach, and they'd play a random song, and…

— Cole Swindell

When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.

— Buddy Guy