Guitar Quotes · Page 31

My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar.

— Johnny Thunders

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on…

— Nuno Bettencourt

Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.

— Merle Haggard

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

— Richie Sambora

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. And that's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around.

— Syd Barrett

I play piano (bit of guitar) and I sing and I love to jam and harmonize with other musical people.

— Jade Hassoune

I'm a rock/blues guitar player. I'm not wanting to be a pop star or anything.

— Orianthi

When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big,…

— Tom DeLonge

One of my earliest inspirations was the 'Allan-a-Dale' character played by Elton Hayes in the 1954 movie 'The Story Of Robin Hood…

— Denny Laine

Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play,…

— Dan Auerbach

I used to watch my father play the guitar and sing when I was a little boy. By the time I was…

— Trini Lopez

When we first started it was just Russell and myself and a guitar player, Earle Mankey, and unlike virtually any other band…

— Ron Mael

I got really, really sick with a spinal infection that put me in a hospital for a couple of months, and it…

— Robert Hunter

Punk was key to the early part of me playing guitar. I was really into melodic punk-rock. I related to punk more…

— John Rzeznik

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people…

— Shannon Hoon

If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if…

— John McLaughlin

The expertise displayed by each musician is jaw-dropping and it's matched by their sensitivity and taste... Lizzy Hoyt displays equal mastery of…

— Jim Sinclair

.. Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying…

— Brad Paisley

When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use…

— Gabor Szabo

I saw the Bangles before I was in a band. I really liked their rhythm. That was right when I was trying…

— Kim Shattuck

I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete…

— Amanda McBroom

When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is…

— Joe Satriani

Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean…

— Pete Townshend

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

— Cameron Monaghan

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

— George Benson

I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.

— Jason Reeves

A lot of girls come to our shows, and a lot of them are freaking adorable and want to learn how to…

— Lzzy Hale

Mum enrolled us for guitar and piano lessons, none of us had any talent oh, Kunal could play the piano well.

— Karan Kapoor

I didn't know how to play lead guitar. There was a freedom in not knowing how to do it.

— Charlotte Caffey

From being in a film and shooting to just being in a studio with my guitar and musicians was a welcome change.

— Farhan Akhtar

It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around…

— Courtney Barnett

I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up…

— Grace Potter

Everything that I do I hear and then I go with my hands, and since I use my hands for both piano…

— Kaci Brown

It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve…

— Elton John

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

— Carlos Santana

Santana is the reason I play guitar - I studied his style so much, I actually wore out the video tapes.

— Orianthi

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

— Dr. John

It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on television and went…

— David Cassidy

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

— Ian Mcewan