Guitar Quotes · Page 54

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

— Ben Howard

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

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

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

— Ranvir Shorey

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

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to…

— Muddy Waters

There was a lot of camaraderie among the bands. I remember a lot of times when I'd be driving up Laurel Canyon…

— June Millington

Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playing music. Because that's…

— Cat Power

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you…

— Eric Clapton

“the flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to…

— Tim Brookes

I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the…

— Johnny Marr

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar…

— Gary Burton

My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing…

— Pete Townshend

Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor,…

— Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

It seemed so wimpy at first when I started to play [guitar]. So I started playing loud with lots of effects just…

— J Mascis

I had my guitar at the set of 'Lost in Space' every day. I was the only one in the cast who…

— Bill Mumy

I met my manager when I was 17, when I didn't have enough money to buy a set of guitar strings. There…

— Johnny Marr

When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and…

— John Petrucci

I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn…

— John Hodgman

I think women were just accepted more as songwriters when they sat on a stool with a guitar and had scruffy hair.…

— Lisa Stansfield

Bracelets with white symbols?” Michael made the question casual; in fact, he bent his head and concentrated on tuning his guitar, not…

— Rachel Caine

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

— Chrissie Hynde

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

— Vivian Campbell

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

— Angus 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

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

— Jakob Dylan

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

— Gary Cherone

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

— Haim Saban

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

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

— Sam Amidon