Guitar Quotes

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!

Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

I've got holes in my guitar.