The Guitar Quotes
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The Guitar Quotes & Sayings
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The guitar gives you a lot of space to cover for yourself, but there's not a lot of room for that on piano.
— Guy Picciotto
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 £1000. I've bought a £400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant.
— Gabrielle Aplin
Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
— Jeff Lynne
Some of the songs I wanted to be really full, [but] there's something to be said for just a voice and a guitar
— Ingrid Michaelson
But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.
— Ritchie Blackmore
They say well begun half done; but Perseverance on the way down takes you up to a great end.
— Vikrmn
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 play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.
— Kim Thayil
A student might ask, how long will it take to learn guitar ... , the answer is, as long as you live - that short.
— Philip Toshio Sudo
The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.
— Dave Mustaine
One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.
— Rory Gallagher
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
The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.
— Phil Lesh
Challenges are like vehicles in the rear-view mirror. They appear larger and nearer than they are.
— Vikrmn
The dove signifies the dove and the guitar signifies a musical instrument called the guitar.
— Pablo Neruda
I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
— Jimmy Page
Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.
— Colbie Caillat
I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.
— Michael Storm
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.
— John Lee Hooker
Bashing out the last note, she turned the guitar to the amp and let the feedback murder everyone's eardrums.
— Tim McGregor
I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.
— Evan Rachel Wood
I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.
— Hugh Jackman
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.
— Tom Jenkinson
Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.
— Frederic Chopin
I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.
— Kenny Chesney
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.
— Andres Segovia
While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.
— Robin Trower
Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.
— Dean Wareham
There is only one mother in this world who is the best one; the one that every kid has got.
— Vikrmn
I don't need to speak ... I play the guitar!
— Joe Perry
I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.
— Nolan Sotillo
Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
— Roger McGuinn
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
I use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax on my entire collection of vintage guitars ... it's the best polish I've ever used ...
— Bob Daisley
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
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
We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
— Noel Gallagher
The Telecaster has two sounds - a good one and a bad one.
— Jimi Hendrix
The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.
— Franz Schubert
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
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
I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
— Dan Fogelberg
I'll never be the best guitar player.
— Chad Kroeger
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
Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.
— David Gilmour
When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to !
— Richard Betts
I don't consider myself a skilled enough instrumentalist to be able to create the atmosphere that I want with just my guitar by myself.
— Thalia Zedek
When words fail, the guitar speaks.
— George Szell
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
James Brown is the reason I play guitar.
— Kevin Eubanks
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
