Guitar Quotes · Page 67

I find it to be an ongoing challenge to keep the guitar from becoming too traditional.

— Edge

I've started to look at guitar playing from more than just a standpoint of using certain modes and techniques.

— Jim Root

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.

— Fred Frith

My father started me off on the guitar, and we learned classical guitar together.

— Julian Bream

I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon.

— Steve Lukather

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

— Lucas Grabeel

My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar…

— David Edwards

Personally, I'm so intrigued by guitar effects pedals. To me they are like tattoos - once you get one, you want another.

— Tom Sandoval

'Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that,…

— Axl Rose

When you're on stage playing, when I plug in a guitar and chord, I'm 16 years old again. I feel the same…

— Billy Squier

I always liked really heavy guitar music, but didn't like the long-winded songs that went with it. And I always liked pop…

— Kim Shattuck

Emotion is a full range of a spectrum, like colours. It's not just anger. How are you going to get that out…

— Oliver Sykes

When I first heard the song 'Eruption,' which is Eddie Van Halen's most famous solo composition, I was confused because it sounded…

— Robert Trujillo

I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and…

— Eddie Van Halen

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version…

— Cat Stevens

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar…

— Catie Curtis

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

— Dr. John

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

— Trixie Mattel

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

— Johnny Marr

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

— Lisa Stansfield

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

— John Hodgman

Once we get out on the road, my tour manager who is also my guitar player does a great job of taking…

— Cody Johnson

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

— Alexander Ludwig

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

— Adrian Belew

I play mostly Gibsons. In fact, they have just given me a signature guitar.

— Lzzy Hale

Well, I think at first, songs were sort of the vehicle which allowed me to be on the stage and get to…

— Taylor Goldsmith

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

— Little Richard

Ask any guitar player - it's hard to feed yourself when you're picking for a living.

— J. J. Cale

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

— Jimmy Page

Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.

— Gary Moore

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 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 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'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

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

— Angus Young