Guitar Quotes · Page 34

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the…

— Chuck Brown

The guitar speaks for me and it says things - hopefully - for everybody that I play for.

— Julian Bream

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

— John Entwistle

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

— Doc Watson

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary.…

— Emmylou Harris

I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad bought me…

— Glen Campbell

A great guitar solo is really a song within a song. You can always go off and do your pageantry, but it…

— Orianthi

I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn't want the noise in our little back-to-back in…

— Joe Cocker

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or…

— Robert Smith

It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being…

— James Iha

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me…

— James Blunt

I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and…

— Jane Seymour

With guitar riffs, we always look for something that 's a little bit special. We've always found that it is harder to…

— Angus Young

I don't want to hear from a band that pretty much sounds like another band. Oh I've heared this riff before, or…

— Gordon Raphael

I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had…

— Hozier

Until I was around 12 or 13, I only listened to classical music, mostly Tchaikovsky. But around that age, I started listening…

— Varg Vikernes

It's like I'll sit down and put my hands on the piano or the guitar, and then I'll hear a sound or…

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

For us Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is bigger than the music. It is very much an experience that brings a lot…

— Rob Halford

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's…

— Dave Grohl

As a guitarist and a lot of the times as a singer, I don't feel that comfortable and you really feel that…

— Stephen Kellogg

There seemed to be a sense about Sarah [Harmer] even back then.She was obviously a quick study. I remember going to the…

— Gordon Downie

More of my friends were the kids in school that, like, skateboarded, or we'd just, like, play guitar in the garage. And…

— Khalil Rountree Jr

I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the…

— Bruce Springsteen

Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there…

— Mick Jagger

It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

— Sam Hunt

Steve Morse is a very good guitar player, but he's American, and he's using humbucker pickups. If you ask me, those two…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I listened to 'En la Ceremony' and had always wished it had some flamenco guitar.

— Jim James

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

— Anonymous

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

— Billy Gibbons

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

— Billy Corgan

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

— Norah Jones

I'm into a lot of music. I used to dabble in electric guitar, but not in a band or anything.

— Chace Crawford

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I…

— Barry Mann

I like playing guitar I don't like talking about it. I like writing riffs, I don't like explaining them.

— Jeff Hanneman

You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be…

— Hans Zimmer

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

— Colin Greenwood

I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went…

— Colin Hanks

I love Vetements, but I tend not to wear on stage 'cause the sleeves are too long and I can't play the…

— Matty Healy

I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist.

— J. K. Rowling

Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.

— Ted Nugent