Guitar Quotes · Page 37

I don't find inspiration by just sitting down with a guitar anymore. I lost that. I started being so interested in other…

— Justin Vernon

Sometimes, you don't need a $5,000 guitar - you need $5,000 worth of lessons.

— Chris Smither

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

— Lenny Kravitz

Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a…

— Meredith Brooks

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I…

— Colbie Caillat

I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own,…

— Russell Crowe

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

— Alexander Ludwig

I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.

— Steve Young

I was pretty much into punk rock and that's all I cared about. I was into Green Day and the Ramones. I…

— Ezra Furman

I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally,…

— Gary Burton

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good…

— David Crosby

I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing.…

— Robbie Robertson

I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7.…

— Miley Cyrus

I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you…

— Jonny Lang

Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for…

— Bill Callahan

I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on…

— Justin Hayward

In a time when everything can be next day and ordered and put on credit and paid for, music to me is…

— John Mayer

I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I…

— B. B. King

The guitar is a funny instrument because you have bendable strings and distortion - there's a potential for noise. It is more…

— John Petrucci

I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six…

— Lucinda Williams

I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew…

— Dean Geyer

These days I don't look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I've got no objections…

— David Gilmour

My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one…

— Joe Pass

To me, the producer is there to make sure the album gets done and gets done as good as possible. So if…

— John Congleton

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10,…

— Lukas Haas

When I was a teenager, I learned that in order to play guitar like Johnny Ramone, it takes a huge amount of…

— Kevin Shields

I can stay on my boat for a few weeks if I have a guitar and a girl and a Bob Marley…

— Kenny Chesney

A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.

— Johnny Ramone

The guitar gives you a lot of space to cover for yourself, but there's not a lot of room for that on…

— Guy Picciotto

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from…

— Abel Ferrara

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico…

— Brian Setzer

I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.

— Les Paul

Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, [but] there's something to be said for just a voice and a…

— Ingrid Michaelson

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

— Charley Pride

I'm an old-fashioned folk singer. I stand in front of an audience with a guitar and a barstool.

— Mary Gauthier

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on 'Reelin' In The Years'.

— Jimmy Page

I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a…

— Jack Johnson

Since around 6 or 7, I've been taking classes in piano, guitar, music theory.

— Skip Marley

When I sing with Loaded, I can't move at all. I'm playing guitar, and I'm singing.

— Duff McKagan

I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.

— Anna Ternheim