Guitar Quotes

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.

I was a guitar player first off.

The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.

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 his car collection than playing the guitar.

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket.

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.