Guitar Quotes · Page 35

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something…

— Kenny Chesney

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

— Joey Santiago

We've got an electric organ, a sax, drums, guitar and bass guitar. We sound less like the Beatles than most of the…

— Dave Clark

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

— Waylon Jennings

I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing…

— Bill Callahan

Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.

— Kevin Parker

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his…

— Joe Satriani

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

— Darren Criss

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you…

— Jonny Lang

In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars…

— Paul Reed Smith

I often wonder why girls who do get into music tend to be just singers, or else play the piano. And if…

— Ellie Rowsell

I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says…

— Joe Satriani

I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar…

— Zac Efron

You know, I like playing music and playing guitar, and I like to draw, so I thought I would end up just…

— John Corbett

Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939…

— Quincy Jones

When you're a guitar teacher, you teach people for a few years, and you become comrades after a while. Because everybody eventually…

— Joe Satriani

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

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

I miss the romance. I keep saying this over and over again, but dance follows music. And if the accent today is…

— Gene Kelly

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

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for…

— Adam Ant

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

— Pele

For one reason or another, a lot of guys wind up with a guitar that isn't really right for them.

— Jim Root

I only write when I'm in a dark place. I hit 'record' and get it out, writing and playing my guitar at…

— Sharon Van Etten

No, I dislike my guitar intensely,I can't even be bothered to smash the fucking thing. It doesn't deserve death.

— Richey Edwards

I saw Jennifer Batten do a cool guitar solo before I ever saw any other girl do a cool guitar solo.

— Nita Strauss

When Bob Dylan was a beginning fellow, Len Chandler, a black singer-musician who played a 12-string guitar, was a friend of his.

— Bill Cosby

Different guitar players really inspired me to want to learn how to sing on the guitar.

— Susan Tedeschi

I get a kick out of just working, making people happy - whether it be in the movies or just playing my…

— Scatman Crothers

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

— Harry Chapin

I'm not a 'practicing' musician anymore. I played bass and guitar. I still pick up a guitar around the house every once…

— Scott Borchetta

I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen,…

— DJ Ashba

Sometimes it's hard for me to just be the guitar player and lose myself.

— Adam Granduciel

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

— Jensen Ackles

The guitar has become a textural instrument rather than a lead instrument. And I think that's probably a good thing.

— Matt Bellamy

If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.

— Pete Townshend