Guitar Quotes

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

I play the guitar a little bit.

I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history.

I just rediscovered my guitar.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar guy, the tour manager and a writer. We laugh ourselves silly. Apparently we're going to have a road dog, a miniature pincher. It's the smallest they've ever seen. How masculine am I going to look, working with dolls and a miniature dog?

I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.