Guitar Quotes · Page 49

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

— Niall Horan

“I want to hold my grandpa in my arms and pet him while I fall asleep. That’s why I’m learning to play…

— Jarod Kintz

Without missing a beat Roger says, All the moneys right down here and points to the 1st three frets.

— Roger Miller

I think music comes out of silence... and I have a lot of silent time, without a pesky guitar interrupting my thoughts.

— Jason Becker

I've written a soulful record but it's informed by my sort of indie guitar past.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

“Acoustics reverberate inside of Lucy Anna, bouncing off her walls and slamming against her bars. Harmonic prison.”

— Kelby Losack

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

— B. B. King

Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies.

— Darren Rowse

I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been…

— Feist

If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just…

— Winona Ryder

The guitar shouldn't be a main instrument, it should be a texture. It shouldn't be important whether it's there or not. If…

— Oliver Sykes

I was playing a singer-songwriter, so I started writing, and I started going up to different places around Los Angeles and reading…

— Inbar Lavi

It's hard to get a start as an instrumental guitar player. It's a much quicker route to be in a band, so…

— Nita Strauss

A guitar is so tactile, and when you're playing bends - and bending notes is a big part of my style -…

— Joe Bonamassa

Obviously I don't play the same way as Peter, but I could do a passable imitation of Peter Green; if you gave…

— Gary Moore

My favorite guitar now is my Martin HD-7 because it's got everything. It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's…

— Roger McGuinn

I always have a guitar with me. Actually, I've got several, I play every day. And I enjoy it. I'm never very…

— Andy Summers

As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write…

— Ian Anderson

My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one…

— Joe Pass

To me, the producer is there to make sure the album gets done and gets done as good as possible. So if…

— John Congleton

I like rock and roll t-shirts, tight jeans, and sneakers or boots. Really just laid back, sort of rock and roll. I'm…

— Orianthi

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I…

— Jimi Hendrix

So one time for my disillusioned artists, I hear ya Two times for the kid that air-guitars in the mirror Three times…

— Danny Denzongpa

I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music…

— Christian Fennesz

I'm not a visual guy. I'm audio. I'm a musician. I know what I do. I play guitar, and in my category…

— Sixto Rodriguez

Well, honestly, Derek - to me, there is no other guitar player out there like him.

— Susan Tedeschi

I started out with acoustic guitar and loop pedal because I thought I wanted to be Ed Sheeran.

— Tom Walker

I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I always play music at home, every day I grab a guitar and start riffing.

— Shavo Odadjian

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

— Patti Smith

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

— Leo Kottke

Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.

— Mark White

I love staying at home and not seeing a guitar for ten days... but then I love that feeling of picking it…

— Peter Frampton

I much rather coach a string quartet in an interpretation of Haydn or Beethoven than to teach the guitar.

— Julian Bream

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

— Christopher Cross

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

— Waylon Jennings

I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and…

— Brian May

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

— Brownie McGhee

More traditional guitar, bass, drums - it's not something completely natural to me. It's, in a way, exotic.

— Mike Patton

David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard

— Dave Mustaine