Guitar Playing Quotes
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Guitar Playing Quotes & Sayings
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I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
— Ryan Cabrera
When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer.
— Richard Pinhas
Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing ... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry.
— George Benson
I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.
— Mac Miller
I'm a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him.
— Tom Scholz
I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.
— Ronnie Milsap
When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression.
— Robby Krieger
When I was 11 years old, I started playing guitar.
— Wyclef Jean
Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.
— Cat Power
Life is like a guitar and the combination of chords are called moments. Playing them is the called living the moments.
— Vikrmn
I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since.
— DJ Ashba
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
Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.
— Kirk Hammett
My father had slowed down playing a little ... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up.
— David Edwards
Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it's more difficult.
— Dave Mustaine
So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.
— Stevie Ray Vaughan
My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.
— Yngwie Malmsteen
I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
— Randy Houser
I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.
— Tommy Bolin
I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.
— Annie E. Clark
Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.
— Brad Paisley
During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.
— Ronnie Dunn
Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.
— Miranda Lambert
I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films.
— Tom Holland
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.
— Buffy Sainte-Marie
I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.
— James Bay
When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.
— Drake Bell
With music, I'm comfortable singing to people but I'm not that comfortable playing the guitar.
— Bronson Arroyo
I like to play music and sleep. But most of all, I love to work ... I don't really play sports, so I like to spend my time playing guitar or piano.
— Drake Bell
I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.
— Lukas Haas
Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school, I haven't even touched a guitar.
— Mike Tucker
It's a guy thing, playing the guitar. Being a female and trying to go to the same auditions as the guys, it's pretty hard.
— Orianthi
A child playing air-guitar plays no wrong notes.
— Victor L. Wooten
When I'm playing guitar, I just try and put those words into lyrics and just try a few things. It's all over the place.
— George Ezra
I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.
— Les Paul
I always looked up to Slash from Guns N' Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the guitar, just going crazy.
— Amber Rose
I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
— Dolly Parton
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.
— Leo Kottke
Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing
— Brett Morgen
Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions.
— Pete Townshend
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
— Keith Richards
I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar.
— Rainbow Rowell
I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak.
— John Lennon
I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking.
— Jordan Gavaris
I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.
— Vivian Campbell
I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.
— Buzz Osborne
I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'
— Bill Callahan
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.
— Ace Frehley
My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.
— John Oates
If you don't know the blues ... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
— Keith Richards
It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.
— Arlo Guthrie
I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.
— Dave Holland
It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around on the floor playing guitar.
— Courtney Barnett
I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
— Martin Gore
I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.
— Jonny Lang
I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.
— George Thorogood
If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon.
— King Khan
Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.
— Joshua Roman
My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.
— Dave Grohl
I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
— Ace Frehley
The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.
— Rodney Atkins
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
— Becky G
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.
— Tom Jenkinson
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
— Daisy Berkowitz
It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana!
— Miyavi
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
I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.
— Fred Frith
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
Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players.
— Brittany Howard
Life is like playing a guitar and meditation is like music. Small session of rehearsals daily won't show much but would make you ROCK in the long run.
— Vikrmn
Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.
— Eddie Vedder
I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.
— Don McLean
I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
— Janis Ian
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
— Billy Corgan
I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.
— Shawn Mendes
Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.
— Trevor Rabin
Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.
— Ernie Isley
Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.
— John Fogerty
I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.
— Mike Gordon
I love playing the guitar.
— Chang Chen-yue
When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.
— Katie Cassidy
A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.
— Bill Orcutt
My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason ... but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.
— David Pajo
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
— Zakk Wylde
This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out ...
— Ryan Adams
Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.
— Gary Moore
I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
— Brownie McGhee