Guitar Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Guitar

Guitar Quotes & Sayings

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I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway. — Brian May

Best Quote of the day: Don't just sit and read the Quote of the day; Implement it. — Vikrmn

I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar! — Megan Lee

I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years. — Andy Griffith

I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up. — Bucky Pope

It hurts deeper is when somebody you love becomes someone you loved. — Vikrmn

There's just no stopping those girls with guitars. — Wynonna Judd

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar. — Johnny Depp

Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls. — Bob Weir

I could write a song and her name would be the music. I could string, strum a guitar, and her body would be the melody. — Jasinda Wilder

I learned guitar solely for the purpose of meeting women. I'd heard it's a great lady-catcher. — Tony Revolori

When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for Â£1000. I've bought a Â£400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant. — Gabrielle Aplin

Let's not call cancer patients as patients, they are cancer fighters. They are brave hearts. — Vikrmn

When I was 11 years old, I started playing guitar. — Wyclef Jean

I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar. — David Gilmour

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music. — Stephen Dorff

I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world. — Paul Reed Smith

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

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me. — Stephan Jenkins

I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement. — Kurt Cobain

I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it. — David Edwards

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

I play guitar because it lets me dream out loud. — Michael Hedges

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

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before. — James Taylor

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth. — Jimmy Page

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19. — Elle King

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar. — Joni Mitchell

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. — Suzi Quatro

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

I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon. — Steve Lukather

I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar. — Angel Olsen

Those thinking Why, When, Where, Who are information providers; the one thinking "HOW" is the leader in solving the problem. — Vikrmn

I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little. — Lauryn Hill

The Hamsters really kick ass - Slim is one of your greatest guitar players — Walter Trout

People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time. — James Taylor

I smash guitars because I like them. — Pete Townshend

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere. — Mark Lanegan

I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first. — Jesse Harris

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort. — Jerry Cantrell

You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar. — Colin Greenwood

I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments. — Dave Matthews

I would love to study guitar or trumpet. — Amy Winehouse

My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it. — Slash

I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy! — Malin Akerman

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. — Ace Frehley

As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing. — Les Paul

We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast — Louis Armstrong

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

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing. — Joe Satriani

Got a problem? Good that you know you have one. Otherwise people either don't know that they have or they don't accept the fact that they have any. — Vikrmn

I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college. — Oscar Isaac

I want a thousand guitars ... — Bruce Springsteen

I think Clapton is brilliant. He's the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar. — Eddie Van Halen

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it. — Bradford Cox

James Brown is the reason I play guitar. — Kevin Eubanks

Ladder of success is made by nails of Patience. — Vikrmn

If Heaven was a summer sky and a TV left on mute, then the Underworld was a starry night and an electric guitar with amps. — Charity Parkerson

Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21. — David Gilmour

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time. — Eric Clapton

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

I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations. — Madeleine Peyroux

Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day. — Patti Smith

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker. — Brian Setzer

We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter. — Noel Gallagher

Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows! — William Shakespeare

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions. — B.B. King

The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one. — Jimi Hendrix

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like. — Cat Stevens

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar. — Fred Frith

Don't be precious about anything-much less a certain guitar sound. There is always another interesting sound or effect just waiting to be discovered. — Robin Guthrie

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune. — Pete Seeger

Friends understand the unsaid words, no matter if they are silent for years. — Vikrmn

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn,
Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute,
Are half so sweet as tender human words. — Bryan Procter

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7. — Les Paul

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar. — Dan Fogelberg

I'll never be the best guitar player. — Chad Kroeger

CA means Chakra of Ambitions. I am a Chartered Accountant. — Vikrmn

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! — Jerry Reed

You are the best at life and shine when you just be YOURSELF. Let nobody tell you that you are not capable of doing what you believe in. — Vikrmn

Cancer can touch you, but not your soul; neither your thoughts, nor your heart. — Vikrmn

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player. — Marnie Stern

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few. — Franz Schubert

I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it. — James Blunt

I don't really have a relationship with the guitar; it's like my slutty lover, whereas I'm married to the piano — Rufus Wainwright

Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass. — Lou Reed

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool. — David Pajo

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head. — Pat Metheny

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

It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve Allen Show that got me into rock music. — Elton John

Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin — Suzi Quatro

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist. — Miyavi

You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes ... it's nice to have different paints on your palette. — Dave Genn

I just rediscovered my guitar. — Ben Gibbard

I use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax on my entire collection of vintage guitars ... it's the best polish I've ever used ... — Bob Daisley

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

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

Listening to Dad's guitar, halting yet lovely in the search for phrasing, I thought: Fair is whatever God wants to do. — Leif Enger

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger. — Debra Wilson

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. — Slash