Guitar Quotes · Page 51

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

— Susan Tedeschi

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

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

— Kelby Losack

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

— Darren Rowse

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

— B. B. King

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

— Leo Kottke

I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without... He's the reason…

— Taylor Swift

I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have…

— Brad Paisley

There were no rules. There's no guide to follow. I would just trust my instincts for some unknown reason. Something inside me…

— Greg Saunier

Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitar player in the world... a guy who mastered that instrument. It was talking when he played.…

— Bruno Mars

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing…

— Anonymous

Basically, everything I've learned on guitar, I've learned from listening to my favorite albums. I never had any formal training. My teachers…

— Zacky Vengeance

One of those Rolling Stone Greatest Guitar Player lists came out and there was no Albert King. That's impossible! There are 10…

— Derek Trucks

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I…

— Duncan Sheik

I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just…

— Eddie Van Halen

There's a lot of women in blues music, lots of strong women and that sort of stuff. It's not the first thing…

— Mirel Wagner

I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels…

— Chris Cornell

I think I always thought of the guitar as the vehicle to be able to make some musical idea up. The only…

— Jeff Tweedy

Then, you know, the other more-traditional role of the producer in, like, the kind of Quincy Jones sense is kind of part…

— Mark Ronson

I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life. I…

— Annie E. Clark

My dad had his own business and was extremely busy, but on a very rare occasion, he would play guitar and sing…

— Natalie Prass

I've seen a lot of people getting into Jazzmasters because of me, and, well, people don't know what they're in for. I…

— Tom Verlaine

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 mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

— Jackie DeShannon

Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away, Somethin' throwed away. And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day.

— William Christopher Handy

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that…

— Tom Curren

Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.

— Meredith Brooks

If I heard a noise at night, I'd think there was a burglar sneaking around; the first thing I'd do was check…

— Angus Young

I ended up starting guitar because I didn't want to just be the lead singer.

— Lzzy Hale

My mother played guitar by ear, and all of us sang except my father, bless his heart.

— Keala Settle

Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many…

— Lola Kirke

I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.

— Bryan Greenberg

It's really funny, I think to myself... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things…

— Brian Setzer

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

— Dan Fogelberg

My dad is a guitar player with huge vinyl record collection. I loved listening to his albums, especially Cream and The Yardbirds.

— Orianthi

I've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.

— Joseph Parker

Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

— John Nettles