Guitar Quotes · Page 56

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

— Nick Cave

I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

— Paul McCartney

When you learn to play, you just hold the guitar differently. You can tell when someone's just never held an instrument.

— Monica Barbaro

I play really bad punk rock guitar. Age-old friends; it's just great hanging out with your mates, causing havoc.

— Rhys Ifans

I know how to play the acoustic guitar, but I'm learning to play the electric guitar now. I'm sure it will be…

— Harshvardhan Rane

Doctor, if I put this here guitar down now I ain't never going to wake up.

— Huddie William Ledbetter

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me…

— Sean Lennon

May was so great to work with, he even took me over to Japan for some dates. It blew me away when…

— Gary Hoey

I've tried to become a singer with the guitar and not let any technological licks run my life. Just write the licks…

— Jeff Beck

A lot of my heroes, like Iron Maiden, cut their teeth playing in venues all around the East End, so when I…

— Sam Ryder

Music and musical instruments were proximal to my life from very early on - I took piano lessons for a brief time,…

— Julien Baker

I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So…

— Duncan Sheik

I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how…

— Mitch Hedberg

I always packed around this guitar my mother gave me before I left home, I would write songs and play them for…

— Ryan Bingham

I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since…

— Mark Knopfler

I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and…

— Rokia Traore

You might pick up some influences from another type of music that you wouldn't normally think of, but, you know, maybe as…

— John Petrucci

We're very much perfectionists, so when we're putting on a huge show and want to play to the best of ability, we…

— Synyster Gates

I grew up playing guitar and writing music, and I always wanted to be a songwriter and a singer and play the…

— Trixie Mattel

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown…

— Dr. John

If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more…

— Maggie Stiefvater

In the morning I'd write these essays, anything that I'd feel like writing, and in the afternoon, I'd spend time with my…

— Iggy Pop

I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had…

— Eddie Van Halen

Yes, of course, I've been dreaming about it since I was a kid. Even now, I'm 31 years-old now and I've never…

— Nita Strauss

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

— Stephan Jenkins

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

— Ted Nugent

I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.

— Hugh Jackman

Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how…

— Pat Metheny

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play…

— John Lee Hooker

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played…

— Benjamin Booker

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

— Gregory Harrison

I've always been an eccentric, a rocker at heart. I can't play the guitar, but I can play the griddle.

— Guy Fieri

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

— Lee Ritenour

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.

— John Oates

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

— Hunter Hayes

Most people can do what I do - they can do guitar solos - but they can't do a good, hard rhythm…

— Angus Young

I'm Mexican, and we do a lot of singing, and it was my brother's guitar that I'd practice on, and he would…

— Sixto Rodriguez

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

— Dave Barry

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

— John Entwistle

I tell people to listen really closely to the song when they're working out their guitar parts.

— Mike Campbell