Playing Guitar Quotes

67 quotes by 62 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
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
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
I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for… — Jackson Browne
Jesus, music has always been my first love. I use music in my work because it's the fastest way to an emotional place. You hear… — Johnny Depp
I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at, — Johnny Winter
My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar… — David Pajo
Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated.… — Dave Grohl
Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing… — Taryn Manning
So I go to the studio, and just say, 'Hi Paul, it's me, Rusty.' I think I kept it together pretty well, although I was… — Rusty Anderson
When I usually use a theremin during a set, it feels...it feels good, because I get to take a break from playing guitar, it's a… — Jon Spencer
The only thing I ever really wanted was a Strat .. I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix on TV the day he died...then… — Yngwie Malmsteen
Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just… — Eddie Van Halen
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. — Buffy Sainte-Marie
I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever. — Jonny Lang
I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers. — Tom Chapin
I started playing guitar kind of by accident. — Ryan Cabrera
Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately. — Trevor Rabin
When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of… — Robby Krieger
Playing guitar is a never-finished journey. — John Fogerty

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