« All Guitar Quotes · Roger McGuinn's Page
Guitar Quotes by Roger McGuinn
- ...Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared…
- ... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he…
- Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
- I don't really collect guitars.
- The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.
- No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words…
More Guitar Quotes
- I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being… — Dan Aykroyd
- I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him. — Jensen Ackles
- My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it. — Tyra Banks
- I'm full of dust and guitars. — Syd Barrett
- I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time. — Syd Barrett
- The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish. — George Benson
- I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. — Theodore Bikel
- I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much… — Ritchie Blackmore
- I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on… — Ritchie Blackmore
- I don't see myself as such an important guitarist. — Ritchie Blackmore
- But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and… — Ritchie Blackmore