Always Quote by Frankie Ballard

The guitar speaks for me and it says things - hopefully - for everybody that I play for.

— Julian Bream

Your voice is not your instrument. Your voice is the character that you build, your innermost feelings, the things that you want to say,…

— Dianne Reeves

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

— Paul Simon

Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, [but] there's something to be said for just a voice and a guitar

— Ingrid Michaelson

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.

— Bruce Springsteen

I don't need to speak...I play the guitar!

— Joe Perry

I like to make my guitar sound mean.

— Mark Tremonti

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

— Dave Mustaine

I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

— Yoko Ono

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

— William Christopher Handy

I'm not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don't I? That is my characteristic, and it's my identity as…

— Jimmy Page

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

— Neil Young