Guitar Quotes

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be in their band for two or three years. And they finally let me in on the harmonica, actually, and then the keyboards, and finally the guitar.

If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.

The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.

I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

There are a lot of really good guitar sounds and new kind atmospheres on the new Bon Jovi record. I think people are going to dig it, man. And it rocks hard.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!

I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.

I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.