Guitar Quotes · Page 10

In 2010, I had been playing guitar for 50 years.

— Lee Ritenour

“Life is a guitar and love is the tune”

— Anonymous

My first love was the sound of guitar.

— Boz Scaggs

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

— Stephen King

I always wanted to learn how to play the guitar.

— Barun Sobti

I started playing guitar by the time I was 9.

— Jon Pardi

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

— Jeremy London

I've always been on a personal mission to save the guitar.

— Tom Morello

One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a…

— Rory Gallagher

I played in orchestras all through high school and taught myself how to play guitar.

— Maggie Rogers

I got a guitar when I was 14. I made really, really, really bad music as a teen. I learned to play…

— Hunx

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

— Iris Dement

Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the…

— Dean Wareham

We are not really skilled musicians. I mean, I can play a little bit of guitar. Thomas can play piano.

— Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

Most rock movies are never authentic - you'll have someone supposedly in 1958 playing a 1990 guitar, and a 1986 microphone.

— Peter Frampton

You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just…

— Gary Clark, Jr

All my influences go into a pot like a big ole stew, and it tastes like all the years I spent trying…

— Frankie Ballard

There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays…

— Eric Clapton

Keith Richards ... was once asked how he came up with all those amazing guitar riffs. His answer? He just starts playing…

— Mark Stevenson

I'm actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I've had so much time with it and I…

— Tom Petty

I know in my heart of hearts that Ritchie Blackmore is one of the great guitar players of all time. He's a…

— Ian Gillan

With 'Someone New', I was at my rawest, and I didn't want to cover it up. And same with 'You Should Know'…

— Banks

A guitar is something you can hold and love and it's never going to bug you. But here's the secret about the…

— Les Paul

The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is…

— Kirk Hammett

Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor,…

— Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

I like to sit in front of the computer, going through files of music, and recording the final vocals, guitars and what-…

— Jason Mraz

We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I…

— Johnny Cash

Once, Pee-wee Herman tweeted a photo of this guitar I made that's shaped like a slice of pizza, and it meant a…

— Andrew W.K

It seemed so wimpy at first when I started to play [guitar]. So I started playing loud with lots of effects just…

— J Mascis

When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and…

— John Petrucci

I had my guitar at the set of 'Lost in Space' every day. I was the only one in the cast who…

— Bill Mumy

I met my manager when I was 17, when I didn't have enough money to buy a set of guitar strings. There…

— Johnny Marr

I play guitar because it lets me dream out loud.

— Michael Hedges

The guitar can go at a scream. It can yell at you.

— Angus Young

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

— Nolan Sotillo

I was just an idiot with a guitar trying to play in pubs and clubs.

— Sam Ryder

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

— Gary Clark, Jr

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.

— Bruce Springsteen

I did play every little note on the guitar on that record

— Lita Ford

I started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12.

— Drake Bell