Guitar Quotes · Page 85

I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the…

— John Petrucci

When I was younger and played acoustic guitar music, I got a lot of Sheeran comparisons, along with guys like Paolo Nutini…

— Jack Garratt

He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun.

— Elvis Presley

I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at…

— Petra Haden

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

— David Lee Roth

To be in Boston, which is a great city and which is full of many colleges and young kids, and to be…

— John Petrucci

As a guitar player, playing instrumental music is a blast.

— John Petrucci

Approach your guitar intelligently, and if there are limits, don't deny them. Work within your restrictions. Somethings you can do better than…

— Chet Atkins

Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I always looked up to Slash from Guns N' Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the…

— Amber Rose

I started playing guitar because of seeing Steve Vai.

— Nita Strauss

I've told older friends to pick up the guitar because it's a great way to express yourself. It's not all about making…

— Cindy Wilson

My dad is a guitar player with huge vinyl record collection. I loved listening to his albums, especially Cream and The Yardbirds.

— Orianthi

A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when…

— Keith Richards

I've always employed a melodic style with my leads, placing strong emphasis on infusing romantic sensibilities into what I'm trying to say.…

— John Petrucci

I've always written songs. I learned guitar when I was 9 or 10 years old and it sort of developed from there.…

— Declan McKenna

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

— Dan Hawkins

My approach in 1999 was basically to play what I had, that was all I could do. At the time I was…

— Jim Root

I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar…

— Jesse Harris

In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

— Colin Greenwood

I'm really interested in trying to learn how to play the guitar since I've got two of them! I can kind of…

— Danielle Bradbery

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

— Ace Frehley

James Hetfield, I mean, the minute he plugs in his guitar and adjusts the tone knob, he comes up with the world's…

— Robert Trujillo

Jeff and Mike had taken drum lessons at a young age. When the Beatles came out in '64, we all wanted to…

— Steve Porcaro

I'm learning on the guitar all the time.

— James Vincent McMorrow

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

— Dane Cook

I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old…

— Brett Dennen

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

— Ryan Eggold

My mother is a pianist and vocalist. When I was 15, I was playing guitar in her Dell Graham Trio.

— Larry Graham

I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors,…

— Noah Cicero

I have no fear of death, so I don't think about it. I love the adrenalin kick that danger brings. Others get…

— Lewis Hamilton

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

— Kirk Hammett

You see, when I go on stage I perform with just a guitar and you have to have very strong material to…

— Chris de Burgh

I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the…

— Chris Carmack

During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first…

— Anonymous

Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin

— Suzi Quatro

My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the…

— Jack Antonoff

Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish.…

— Juanes

I only wanted to play the guitar so I could write music. As soon as I learned my first three chords I…

— Michelle Zauner

I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit.…

— Marc Maron