Guitar Quotes · Page 44

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

— Beck

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

— Eric Clapton

When I first wanted to play guitar it was because I had seen Brian Setzer. He's so good! I mean I was…

— Kim Shattuck

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

— Buzz Osborne

I knew Rocky George, the guitar player, 'cause I went to junior high school with him, so I've known him for many…

— Robert Trujillo

I have a sloppy style of playing guitar. A percussive style. Unique in fact.

— Sixto Rodriguez

Doctor, if I put this here guitar down now I ain't never going to wake up.

— Huddie William Ledbetter

I know how to play the acoustic guitar, but I'm learning to play the electric guitar now. I'm sure it will be…

— Harshvardhan Rane

I didn't know until later, but my uncle was quite a famous bohemian in Glasgow, and he played guitar. My father was…

— Donovan

I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock.…

— Al Yankovic

I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned…

— Bobby Vinton

Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, and Muddy Waters…

— Hugh Laurie

My grandpa was a country singer, and I started learning guitar from him, just at the kitchen table when I was younger,…

— Trixie Mattel

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved…

— Ellie Goulding

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of…

— Mel Tillis

For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the…

— Peter Blegvad

Although I have guitars all around and I pick themm up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't…

— George Harrison

.. Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying…

— Brad Paisley

When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use…

— Gabor Szabo

I saw the Bangles before I was in a band. I really liked their rhythm. That was right when I was trying…

— Kim Shattuck

I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete…

— Amanda McBroom

When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is…

— Joe Satriani

I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd…

— Zooey Deschanel

My music is so mine, it's hard to turn it over to someone else. I have to be really involved in the…

— Dolly Parton

I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

— Paul McCartney

When you learn to play, you just hold the guitar differently. You can tell when someone's just never held an instrument.

— Monica Barbaro

I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

— Rhys Ifans

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little…

— John Frusciante

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

— Nick Cave

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

— Ted Nugent

I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.

— Hugh Jackman

Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how…

— Pat Metheny

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

— Stephan Jenkins

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me…

— Sean Lennon

May was so great to work with, he even took me over to Japan for some dates. It blew me away when…

— Gary Hoey

I don't feel like I deserve to have to do a guitar pull with four brand-new artists when I've sold millions of…

— Sara Evans

Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.

— Sam Amidon

I probably spent more time as a kid playing air guitar to Jimmy Page than any other guitar player.

— Paul Gilbert

You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the whole...You only notice the guitar when it's not there

— Freddie Green

Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold.…

— John Prine