Guitar Quotes · Page 30

Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures…

— Dan Hill

If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.

— Eric Clapton

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in…

— Syd Barrett

Sometimes you cannot produce a specific sound you want with, say, a guitar or piano, and you simply need to use electronic…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

— James Taylor

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

— John Frusciante

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

— Tommy Shaw

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

— Alexis Korner

I just recorded in studios, you know, people pressed the buttons for me. So I just started recording the bass lines and…

— Petra Haden

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me…

— Jackson Browne

I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an…

— Dan Hawkins

The people I liked all told a story playing guitar. There are a lot of flashy guys out there I didn't like.…

— Susan Tedeschi

The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get…

— Eddie Van Halen

You know how kids will wait outside after a gig and try to get an autograph from the band? I would do…

— John 5

I play guitar; you'll find me at home strumming 'Vincent' on the guitar. I also read a lot of poetry, and Shakespeare…

— Dave Legeno

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun…

— Kip Winger

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

When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar…

— B. B. King

We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a…

— Rob Halford

The main reason for the break was a combination of travel and going back to university, which drew me into theatre more…

— Roy Montgomery

To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to…

— Wes Montgomery

Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur…

— Rob Sheffield

The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet…

— Randy Bachman

Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The…

— Patti Smith

In any moment, I guess we could whip out a guitar and start playing old school.

— Kyle Gass

“Playing the guitar is all very well, John, but you'll never make a living at it.”

— John Lennon's aunt

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

— Syd Barrett

I wanted a guitar when I was 4 or 5, and I learned how to play guitar by the time I was 6. Just self-taught.

— Blackbear

Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive

— Les Paul

When I feel like improvising, I always improvise on the guitar, never on the lute. It's as natural to me as breathing.

— Julian Bream

I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.

— Ronnie Wood

If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

— Frank Zappa

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

— Ryan Adams

Chromamatic' is actually about changing the strings on my guitar and tuning my guitar.

— Wayne Static

Honestly, if I was to learn how to play the guitar it would be an acoustic guitar. That's just the way I…

— De'Aaron Fox

My little brother can play the guitar; he can sing. He was a worship leader at his church. Me, no talent.

— Delilah

Bob Dylan is great. I've been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a…

— Jake Bugg

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

— Sheryl Crow

The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the…

— Steve Goodman

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or…

— Joe Pass