Guitar Quotes · Page 45

I have held Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock guitar and imagined what it would be like to play it, but that's the extent of…

— Paul Allen

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at…

— Joshua Homme

This guy told me that playing the guitar is the best way to calm you down. I bet he never tried smashing…

— Nikhil Saluja

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

— Andy Summers

For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really…

— Doug Martsch

I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my first…

— Benjamin Clementine

I can play 'Guitar Hero,' most of the songs on Medium and some of the songs on Hard. No Expert.

— Ryan Hansen

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

— Glen Hansard

We're not playing your typical guitar tuning, so there is no normal chords for us to get our footing with. We're pretty…

— Lee Ranaldo

I played acoustic guitar so intensely, for so long - for nine hours a day as a 10-year-old, writing songs through the…

— Mark Duplass

I had an edge in 'Andhadhun' because, being a musician, I knew how to play a guitar, so it was not difficult…

— Ayushmann Khurrana

With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal,…

— Ben Folds

To try and learn how to be a singer, a really good guitar player, a really good pianist, it's always lagged a…

— Van Hunt

I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and…

— Evel Knievel

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and…

— Madeleine Peyroux

'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop and the ganjo rolling down, and…

— Jon Pardi

You can approach the guitar like a voice. That's the best way of looking at it. If you are singing, you can't…

— John Petrucci

I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an…

— Mark Twain

My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I…

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

There is no way that I could pinpoint just one person. When I first started, I was listening to Randy Rogers quite…

— Curtis Grimes

I do media every day I tour and the travel itself is a bit testing, so I don't get to do much…

— Ted Nugent

I felt I had nothing more to say. Everything would have had to be a replay of the previous two or three…

— Richard Pinhas

It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife,…

— Henry Rollins

I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was…

— Anne Hathaway

I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.

— Chrissie Hynde

Music is a big passion for me, and whenever we all friends get together we play guitar, sing songs and play games.

— Ranvir Shorey

The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar…

— Ian Anderson

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

— Rick Springfield

When I pick up Hank Williams' guitar or that first suit that Johnny Cash wore on stage, it empowers me.

— Marty Stuart

My bajo sexto, a big Mexican acoustic guitar, comes from a shop in L.A. run by three generations of Mexicans.

— Paul Young

I know as far as I'm concerned, I'm getting really excited about writing, and I'm taking guitar and vocal lessons.

— Ryan Ross

It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style.

— Kenny Loggins

I used to run home from school, pick up my guitar, and lock myself in my room and play.

— Angus Young

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

— Kevin Bacon

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

— John Frusciante

I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.

— Vivian Campbell

I did play the guitar and sing; I was in a band called The Estrogens: three females and one very brave guy.

— Carolyn Porco

I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.

— James Hetfield

I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent…

— Frank Zappa

I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar…

— Gary Cherone