Electric Guitar Quotes

45 quotes by 41 authors

I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist.… — Ian Anderson
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic… — Ian Anderson
Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball… — Michael Bamberger
There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and music gathering those… — Michael Martin Murphey
I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not. — Phillip Phillips
I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ… — Evan Rachel Wood
I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to be a totally… — Jeff Beck
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start. — Keith Richards
In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and… — Ry Cooder
... Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world... — Barney Kessel
If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars… — Eddie Van Halen
The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time. — Frank Zappa
I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass.… — Glenn Hughes
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way — Dan Fogelberg
Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants. — David Lee Roth
Letâ€™s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. Thatâ€™s why I like it… — Frank Zappa
All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar... — Chuck Berry
Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I… — Juliana Hatfield
Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer? — Andres Segovia
On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and… — Tommy Shaw

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