Guitar Quotes · Page 36

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

— Miles Davis

There's not many crazy guitar instrumentalists out there that put on a crazy monster show.

— John 5

I'm still like an excited kid playing guitar in front of the bedroom mirror.

— James Bay

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.

— Brandy Clark

I first picked up a guitar at seven after watching Dad play at backyard barbecues.

— Cody Simpson

Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of…

— Matt Papa

I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.

— Ted Nugent

I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.

— Jack O'Connell

Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around,…

— Neil Diamond

Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on…

— Leo Kottke

,,, all around it would have to be Eddie Cochran, because it wasn't just music with him; it was his guitar playing,…

— Brian Setzer

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar…

— John Fahey

I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a…

— Casey Spooner

I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me, this was going to…

— Jimmy Page

As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician,…

— Richie Sambora

It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it…

— Anonymous

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

Yeah, on the records, the guitars are made melodic, and I try to make it memorable. There's not much just wanking, to…

— Stephen Malkmus

Hendrix was back there with a few of the others who were like my training wheels ... hearing him as a teenager…

— Junior Brown

On stage I have to be comfortable because I play guitar so I can't wear too much jewellery, it knocks against the…

— Ellie Goulding

Once I started to make the transition to guitar - because I was playing keyboards when we started the band - I…

— Lzzy Hale

My dad had a couple guitars around, but he never played guitar. He just liked having them. I always would play around…

— Everlast

He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

— Chuck Berry

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

— Neal Schon

All the guys I know that play guitar are also secretly drummers and vice versa.

— Mark Lanegan

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to…

— Julian Cope

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

— Katy Perry

I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.

— Waylon Jennings

It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super.

— Dolores O'Riordan

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

— Ace Frehley

I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.

— Kim Thayil

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects…

— Paul Simonon

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

— Andy Summers

When I first started playing guitar, I would sit in my room for hours and learn scales.

— Julien Baker

My mom was always driving me back and forth to guitar lessons, growing up. She was super supportive and probably my biggest…

— Chord Overstreet

The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all…

— Geoff Rickly

I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano

— Rufus Wainwright

I have a good time doing 'Give Me Back My Man.' Keith Strickland can really fly on the guitar.

— Cindy Wilson