The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was listening to a lot of Metallica, a lot of instrumental guitar music because I started out as a… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
I kind of just got right into playing music because I could kind of stop thinking when I was concentrating on playing… — Tash Sultana Copy Share Image
I was a good father. I was a nice guy, pretty good guitar player, and funny as hell. — Steve Lukather Copy Share Image
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
Nothing is more annoying than a great singer getting drowned out by a loud guitar. — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs. — John Denver Copy Share Image
I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Even before I wrote any songs, I had this idea of a triangle where the voice was at the top, some sort… — Panda Bear Copy Share Image
I took one guitar lesson, and they wanted me to play 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' or 'Michael Row the Boat Ashore,'… — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
My mum had this idea I was going to be this long-haired hippie playing guitar and bought me one when I was… — Liberty Ross Copy Share Image
For just being a black artist in rock n' roll and be able to step outside and create, and make great music.… — Future Copy Share Image
I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
I'm very much of that old-school mentality of believing that if it works with an acoustic guitar and a vocal, then it… — Passenger Copy Share Image
I think I come under the singer/songwriter badge. I've always written songs right from the very beginning. Because of my style of… — Bert Jansch Copy Share Image
Return to the beginning. Enter by form. Clean your dojo. As you have every day, tie on the white belt and empty… — Philip Toshio Sudo Copy Share Image
I think if you really put your mind to something you can do it. Five and a half years ago I couldn't… — Jimmy Wayne Copy Share Image
I was deluding myself that the song was almost not important, but I think the real thing that was happening was almost… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
A lot of people at my school could play the "Stairway to Heaven" guitar solo, but they couldn't play three chords of… — Kevin Shields Copy Share Image
Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played… — Moby Copy Share Image
When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
In the physical universe, there are objects that include suns, planets, all life, and all matter in all dimensions. And then there… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
There are other tracks that are more reliant upon the beat. Like nobody's going to sit there and play "Harlem Shake" on… — Andrew Wyatt Copy Share Image
There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi. — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument. — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
It's a complicated relationship with a guitar. I love the Bullet, for sure. — Laurent Brancowitz Copy Share Image
As far as guitar goes, it's weird to have such a challenging activity in my life for so long - I love… — Vernon Reid Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a bohemian household where my dad plays guitar and my mom plays piano just because they love… — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive. — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister's friend went on a semester abroad, and she left the guitar at our… — David Walton Copy Share Image
The umbrella of jazz is so big and so wide . If you don't like saxophone, try a vocalist, if you don't… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm… — Scott Ian Copy Share Image
I knew I could kind of carry a tune, but I didn't sing. So I worked with an incredible vocal coach and… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song. — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms. — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
