Best Guitar Sayings
1528 Guitar quotes by 841 unique authors
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[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not…
— Elvis Costello
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Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.
— Dave Edmunds
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But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.
— Mike McCready
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Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.
— Bob Weir
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Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd,…
— Andy Gibb
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Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and…
— Ikue Mori
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I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.
— Joe Satriani
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I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the craft needs to…
— John Petrucci
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Every July, August and part of September I escape of the guitar, I escape of Paco de Lucia and I go to Mexico to the…
— Paco de Lucia
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I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour…
— Slash
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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological…
— J. B. Priestley
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As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You…
— Buffy Sainte-Marie
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I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is...The arrangements were mine. They were little…
— Linda Ronstadt
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When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
— Sheryl Crow
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It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just…
— Stevie Nicks
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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ...…
— Jimmy Page
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What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ... I wrote…
— Rod Stewart
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From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.
— Unknown Author
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I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to…
— Mark Twain
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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
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These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when I…
— Ani DiFranco
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I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative…
— Unknown Author
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I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously disappeared…
— Dan Piraro
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I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never…
— Charlie Daniels
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I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to…
— Ozzy Osbourne
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