Guitar Quotes · Page 58

There are many pop stars who are great performers - but there is no chart-topping pop star in history who could play…

— Tom Morello

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

— Truman Capote

My dad had an acoustic guitar, and I remember I was like 12 when I started learning to play chords.

— Ellie Rowsell

“I love you as a guitar loves those playful nimble hands. Without your touch, the strings of my heart can’t play the…

— Debasish Mridha

I write my own music. By myself, on a computer, I program guitar and piano.

— Christina Grimmie

As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it…

— John Prine

The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and…

— Lykke Li

I'm a chameleon when it comes to guitar playing and like to stretch out into different territories.

— Nancy Wilson

I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it…

— Christian Fennesz

I was inspired to play electric guitar from listening to a lot of Carlos Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and B.B. King, and…

— Orianthi

Touring with Brian May was like a dream come true that happened early in my career. He inspired me with the way…

— Gary Hoey

Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two…

— Jeff Ament

I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an…

— Zach Condon

I would have liked to grow up in Liverpool and become a rocker. I would have put my boots on, jeans and…

— Hasso Plattner

It's interesting to see how acoustic guitars are emerging as a primary instrument once again ... reminds me very much of what…

— Kenny Loggins

The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture…

— Kirk Hammett

Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot…

— Anthony Bourdain

Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks…

— Steve Lawson

It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,…

— Stevie Nicks

I just think that the question of women in rock or women playing guitar, I just think it's such a non-issue, and…

— Annie E. Clark

Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

There's no secret, but inspiration has to find you working. And that's one of the key things that I've always remembered. And…

— Justin Hayward

In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a…

— Andrew Dost

There's people that say “It's not fair You have all that stuff.” I wasn't born with it. It was a horrible process…

— Louis C. K

I was definitely drawn to the mythology of one man, one voice, and one guitar.

— Hozier

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

— Juanes

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and…

— Ritchie Blackmore

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

— Taylor Swift

I got a dalmatian, and I can still get high, I can play the guitar like a motherfuckin riot.

— Brad Nowell

I worked with George Harrison - who was the reason I started playing guitar.

— Steve Lukather

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

— Andy Summers

I forget that I can play guitar and that I can perform very well. It's like having an alternative life.

— Tom Misch

I'm very aware of what, say, electric guitar recordings in the '60s sounded like.

— Rostam Batmanglij

Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have…

— John Lennon

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my…

— Kirk Hammett

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were…

— Tommy Bolin

If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.

— Neil Young

I feel like the guitar playing gives me rhythm with my punches - really helps to change up my jab.

— Joseph Parker

We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman's shoes would not really be fair to anybody who…

— Butch Trucks

I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of…

— Chrissie Hynde