Guitar Quotes · Page 66

No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.

— Tom Petty

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

— Peter Tork

I'm learning to play guitar. It's very difficult, but I'm determined to do it right so I don't make anybody mad.

— Rachael Leigh Cook

All the songs I've written, if they don't sound good on acoustic guitar, they won't sound good at 11.

— John Waite

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

— John Frusciante

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

— Joe Perry

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

— Billy Gibbons

I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.

— Rokia Traore

I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing…

— Randy Bachman

I give myself time with a guitar and PA to let my subconscious do its thing. This happens repeatedly over a period…

— Scout Niblett

I never knew I was a songwriter. I didn't even know I was a singer. My parents just got me a guitar…

— Dion DiMucci

If a little kid picks up Guitar Hero and learns 'Smoke On The Water,' he soon finds out that if he wants…

— Brad Paisley

I love playing guitar. I grew up with my dad playing. But acting is definitely the forefront, I guess I'd say, in…

— Jesse Plemons

I learned classical guitar as a kid at about 7 or 8 years old. When I was about 14, I started dabbling…

— Passenger

I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that…

— Martha Wainwright

I'm hungry for purpose. I'm looking for still that reason that I bought a guitar and started a band, to fulfill a…

— Billy Ray Cyrus

I got a drum set at the age of four. I wasn't playing that well, just kind of banging around. I just…

— Shuggie Otis

...I was doing someones hair the day I first saw my guitar ... a guy was walking down the street with it,…

— Roy Buchanan

Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, 'Yeah, songwritin' man,' looking wistful.…

— Alex Turner

I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about…

— Jonny Greenwood

There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.…

— Michael Jackson

I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,'…

— Rachel Boston

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

A guitar is like a good women,touch her in the right place in the right way and she will move you in…

— Anonymous

In essence, I feel I'm more jazz guitar player because I write vehicles geared for improvisation.

— Allan Holdsworth

I love playing acoustic guitar because I strum with my hands to feel more connected.

— Ananya Birla

I've always known from the time I was eight years old what I wanted to do. I would have been fairly content…

— Brad Paisley

I like music more balanced between the voice and the guitar and the percussion. I don't like heavy metal.

— Carlos Carvalhal

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

— David Gilmour

I think that Bach has a very nice sound on the lute. But I find that what I want to do with…

— Julian Bream

When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time,…

— Katie Cassidy

Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within…

— Pete Townshend

Guitar players I find kind of boring - and that's not meant as a dig. I find myself boring.

— Joe Satriani

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

— Adam Jones

Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.

— Isaac Hanson

When I was very young, it was Guns N' Roses and Metallica. I'd play air guitar on my bed. They've been the…

— M. Shadows

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

— Paul Weller

I have smaller hands, so it's nice being a littler guy, having a guitar that fits my body type.

— Brendon Urie

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take…

— Eric Clapton