Guitar Quotes · Page 46

You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good.

— Jakob Dylan

I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with…

— Steve Young

I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

— J. J. Cale

Everywhere I go I have a guitar, even when I travel, I take a guitar with me, this is how I get…

— Haim Saban

As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.

— David Rawlings

Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.

— Lemmy Kilmister

I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.

— Brian May

I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at,

— Johnny Winter

As a band, when we started, that was all we were good at. It wasn't 'we've got to be a guitar band';…

— Luke Hemmings

My favourite guitar was - I can't remember if it was '50s or '60s - a pale wood Telecaster, and it made…

— Viv Albertine

I've been using slide guitar, banjo, stuff like that for yonks. But if people haven't seen me live on stage, they wouldn't…

— Shakin' Stevens

I've been playing the viola since I was 6 years old, and then I decided to switch it up a bit, so…

— Anthony Gonzalez

If you think about a punk band, there are only, like, three instruments - bass, guitar and drums. And I wanted it…

— Peaches

The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part…

— Oscar Isaac

I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to…

— Martha Wainwright

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all…

— Brian Setzer

It's how I learned to play guitar - sitting with Led Zeppelin and Cheap Trick records, backing the needle up and learning…

— Tad Kubler

John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of…

— Madison Smartt Bell

My hair grows into a fuzz ball - I just wanted it to grow downwards rather than outwards - but then I…

— Hozier

Charley Patton is the original inspiration. I didn't play anything when I was a kid. Then, when I was 20, I went…

— Chris Rea

Sometimes when I can't communicate that I'm frustrated, I'll just grab my guitar and I can play out that emotion and be…

— Kerry James Marshall

I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with…

— Albert Lee

Andres Segovia, the great name for guitar, he put classical guitar on the map. He was the proponent of it, the best…

— George Benson

... Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll…

— Brad Paisley

I drove my Mum crazy, because I wouldn't go out and play football or join the Boy Scouts, I'd just sit at…

— Gary Moore

A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very…

— Julian Bream

The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.

— Sasha Frere-Jones

I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

— Bibi Bourelly

I'm a decent writer, barely a decent guitar player, and a terrible singer.

— Bobby Bones

I'm a useless guitar-player. When I put myself in a band I immediately became its weakest part. I was like my forehand…

— Mats Wilander

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.

— George Harrison

I was the only kid reading guitar magazines at the back of the classroom.

— Orianthi

Usually what I do is I write my vocal melody over guitar parts and then I come up with lyrics.

— Hope Sandoval

The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings.

— Julian Bream

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other…

— Keith Richards

For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing.

— Ben Howard

I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I…

— Suzanne Vega

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

— Elton John

You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.

— Hank Williams, Jr

I'm a singer-songwriter. So I play guitar, and I sing. Along the lines of, I guess you could call it, alternative rock.

— Brandon Jones