Guitar Quotes · Page 88

My first guitar was an Ibanez semi-hollowbody, I think it was called the Artist, from the early '80s.

— Kim Shattuck

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and…

— Daniel Smith

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

— George Harrison

The bottom line with Dimebag is he got off on making people happy. It didn't matter if it was about playing his…

— Vinnie Paul

I don't know why you're making the poor girl play with you," Peter said. "You're going to completely slaughter her." "Well, I…

— Amanda Hocking

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on…

— Serj Tankian

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before:…

— B. B. King

When I was about 9, my brother, who's six years older than me, started getting guitar lessons, and I wouldn't say that…

— Lewis Capaldi

I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when…

— Jeremy Fisher

I play guitar all the time, and I'm constantly thinking of songs... Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up…

— Joey Jordison

I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were…

— Tig Notaro

I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.

— Tobias Forge

I grew up playing guitar in the late Nineties, early 2000s, so a very acoustic-driven pop-rock era, and then in college, I…

— Trixie Mattel

I guess I find it easier to talk when I have a guitar in front of me.

— Mary Gauthier

We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman's shoes would not really be fair to anybody who…

— Butch Trucks

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

— Kaki King

I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much…

— Ritchie Blackmore

Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away, Somethin' throwed away. And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day.

— William Christopher Handy

My style is so tightly tied in with our songs that I don't think you could even ask me to quit Radiohead…

— Jonny Greenwood

... when I heard Apache by the Shadows, that was it ! ...then there was a guitar player named Steve Gordon, he…

— Ray Flacke

I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between…

— Glenn Branca

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw…

— Erin McKeown

I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world.

— Paul Reed Smith

My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I…

— Oscar Isaac

As far as guitar goes, it's weird to have such a challenging activity in my life for so long - I love…

— Vernon Reid

I'd love to have Jack White up. I think he's just a phenomenal guitar player. I'd love to see him play up…

— Mike McCready

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play.…

— Mark Knopfler

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

— Andy Summers

As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it…

— John Prine

David Longstreth is one of the great guitar heroes of our generation.

— Aaron Dessner

There's such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar... flamenco, jazz, rock, blues... you name it, it's there. In the…

— Jimmy Page

I play the guitar, and I juggle.

— Jeremy Sisto

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

— Lucy Dacus

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

— Zooey Deschanel

Music and guitar are my favorite things, so it's fun to get together with other people who share the passion and talk…

— Paul Gilbert

When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with…

— Chris Pratt

I'd rather be known as a songwriter than a guitarist, although I love to play the guitar.

— Rick Nielsen

I remember writing Sunday Morning' and Gwen wasn't feeling well that day and I had an acoustic guitar and I started singing,…

— Tony Kanal

If it works for the piece of music, I'm going to use it. I don't want to be limited any more than…

— Linda Perhacs

This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar…

— Ryan Adams