Guitar Quotes · Page 40

I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came…

— Janis Ian

My dad has been playing guitar basically all his life. He's sort of who got me into rock music.

— Dylan Minnette

If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

— Pete Seeger

My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I…

— Lyle Lovett

As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

— Adam Jones

I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of…

— John C. Reilly

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

— Phil Lesh

On my fourth or fifth birthday, a guitar was given to me, and I made a new friend. A very loud friend.

— Eliot Sumner

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin…

— Cat Stevens

Hendrix was a different kind of guitar player. It was like, 'Holy cow, this guy can sing, he can play all this…

— Rick Nielsen

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem,…

— Joni Mitchell

I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at…

— Steve Vai

Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making…

— Dan Auerbach

I'm really interested in trying to learn how to play the guitar since I've got two of them! I can kind of…

— Danielle Bradbery

When we make those guitars we make tons of prototypes, I have all those. And once a guitar has come out there's…

— John Petrucci

My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't…

— Laura Dern

Everybody besides my piano player has been with me since the very first day. We were a four-piece band for a solid…

— Thomas Rhett

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of…

— Ian Williams

I know what love feels like. That is one thing I have found. That is one thing that is much clearer because…

— A. J. Langer

I've always been really into blues guitar. I feel like that comes out a little bit in my guitar parts: country, blues…

— Declan McKenna

A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out…

— William Christopher Handy

I watched the video [ with my first commercial] when I was 20, and in the video, there are two families. The…

— Mara Wilson

I don't ever have any bass in my monitors at all; I instead like to lock in with the guitar. I know…

— Vinnie Paul

I didn't start really playing the guitar till I was about seventeen, and I never really had those formative years are where…

— Ryan Bingham

Before I even became a guitar player, I wanted to be a Beatle. That was my first dream as a musician, was…

— Paul Gilbert

I very easily could have broke Hulk Hogan leg because I was the real shooter. Hulk was the bodybuilder guitar player.

— The Iron Sheik

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

— James Taylor

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

— Zooey Deschanel

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

— Wes Montgomery

I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.

— Kathleen Hanna

When I picked up my guitar, I spent the first day learning the chord E, the second day A, then B7, and…

— Ian Gillan

Being a female hard rocker and guitar player, I felt the need to put out a memoir. Almost like a rock 'n'…

— Lita Ford

I don't seek out knowledge when it comes to guitar playing; I like to let it happen naturally.

— Jim Root

Generally, I think of myself as a guitar player, but when I do find the right song to sing lead on, I…

— Nancy Wilson

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

— Minnie Driver

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

— Anonymous

My dad was my first influence. He played classical guitar and my uncle Ron played the blues.

— Jason Becker

People started to ask me, 'Do you really play guitar?' They thought it was a prop. It was just interesting, because of…

— Nancy Wilson

When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to !

— Richard Betts

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

— Moby