Quotes about Guitar

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar. Votes: 4

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid. Votes: 4

Shut Up and Play your Guitar. Votes: 3

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody. Votes: 3

Guitar players never listen to lead singers. Votes: 3

I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero! Votes: 3

Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole Votes: 3

I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.' Votes: 3

Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People. Votes: 3

I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture. Votes: 3

The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown. Votes: 3

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties. Votes: 3

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive. Votes: 3

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now. Votes: 3

I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song Votes: 3

Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos. Votes: 3

Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos. Votes: 3

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct. Votes: 3

Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin Votes: 3

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time. Votes: 3

My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room. Votes: 3

Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero. Votes: 3

I can play 'Guitar Hero,' most of the songs on Medium and some of the songs on Hard. No Expert. Votes: 3

My sunglasses are like my guitar. Votes: 2

I just go where the guitar takes me. Votes: 2

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. Votes: 2

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar. Votes: 2

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes. Votes: 2

My brother plays guitar and base and writes. His name is Chase Ryan. Votes: 2

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people Votes: 2

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it. Votes: 2

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too. Votes: 2

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar. Votes: 2

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. Votes: 2

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician. Votes: 2

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person. Votes: 2

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands. Votes: 2

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar. Votes: 2

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar. Votes: 2

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded. Votes: 2

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time. Votes: 2

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out. Votes: 2

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it. Votes: 2

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life. Votes: 2

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man. Votes: 2

Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you. Votes: 2

People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive. Votes: 2

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself Votes: 2

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. Votes: 2

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play. Votes: 2

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me. Votes: 2

I've got a quick mouth, and I set my boundaries. Nothing ever happened that I couldn't handle. Once when a guy came on stage making rude gestures, I hit him over the head with my guitar. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts. Votes: 2

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town. Votes: 2

I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to. Votes: 2

I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound. Votes: 2

When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe dances around. Votes: 2

Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.' Votes: 2

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. Votes: 2

One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D tuning, and of course, also being a guitar player, it's one of the songs that I really like the riff on it. Votes: 2

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange. Votes: 2

Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano. Votes: 2

One thing I've noticed over the years is that young players - I mean 10- and 12-year-olds - really like my guitar style. There's something in my guitar style that they totally can latch onto and learn quickly, and then go from there to your Yngwie Malmsteens or your Steve Vais or whatever. Votes: 2

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! Votes: 2

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. Votes: 2

I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around. My dad taught me to play drums for 'Love Actually,' and I still play drums now. But I'm not a 'drummer.' I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist. Votes: 2

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string. Votes: 1

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who i am Votes: 1

I have no guitar technique. Votes: 0

I just rediscovered my guitar. Votes: 0

Every guitar has a personality. Votes: 0

I'm a struggling guitar player. Votes: 0

I never liked mellow sounding guitar. Votes: 0

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey. Votes: 0

When words fail, the guitar speaks. Votes: 0

I'm surrounded by great guitar players. Votes: 0

A guitar has moonlight in it. Votes: 0

I'm not a good guitar player. Votes: 0

Tonight I just need my guitar. Votes: 0

I've got holes in my guitar. Votes: 0

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. Votes: 0

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger. Votes: 0

I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian. Votes: 0

Take this rifle, kid. Gimme that guitar. Votes: 0

The guitar is an orchestra in itself. Votes: 0

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest. Votes: 0

I don't recall getting a first guitar. Votes: 0

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar. Votes: 0

I shoulda learned to play the guitar. Votes: 0

I was a guitar player first off. Votes: 0

I'll never be the best guitar player. Votes: 0

I can't do anything but play guitar. Votes: 0

I can write songs without a guitar. Votes: 0

My guitar wants to kill your mama. Votes: 0

I play the guitar a little bit. Votes: 0

I sing a bit and play guitar. Votes: 0

Playing guitar is like telling the truth. Votes: 0

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large. Votes: 0

I started playing guitar kind of by accident. Votes: 0

In 2010, I had been playing guitar for 50 years. Votes: 0

Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense". Votes: 0

Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Votes: 0

I don't read music; I taught myself guitar. Votes: 0

She was just another notch on my guitar. Votes: 0

A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar! Votes: 0

James Brown is the reason I play guitar. Votes: 0

My first love was the sound of guitar. Votes: 0

Bass guitar is the engine of the band. Votes: 0

Bass is for people who can't play guitar Votes: 0

I would love to study guitar or trumpet. Votes: 0

My guitar was a loyal person to me. Votes: 0

In the '90s, guitar solos were dead. Votes: 0

I'm learning on the guitar all the time. Votes: 0

I own a guitar, a piano, a bass. Votes: 0

He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun. Votes: 0

I like to make my guitar sound mean. Votes: 0

But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen. Votes: 0

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions. Votes: 0

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly. Votes: 0

But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . . Votes: 0

When God plays guitar he uses Jeff Beck's hands. Votes: 0

I'd like to know how to play the guitar. Votes: 0

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar. Votes: 0

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. Votes: 0

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. Votes: 0

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar. Votes: 0

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar. Votes: 0

The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957. Votes: 0

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world. Votes: 0

When I was 11 years old, I started playing guitar. Votes: 0

Phil Robson is a disturbingly good jazz guitar player! Votes: 0

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger. Votes: 0

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45. Votes: 0

Steve Fister is a great guitar player. He's ROCKIN'!! Votes: 0

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar. Votes: 0

I was a drummer and I played the guitar. Votes: 0

I don't need to speak...I play the guitar! Votes: 0

I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy! Votes: 0

I like guitar sounds to be a little somber. Votes: 0

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar Votes: 0

My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records. Votes: 0

My guitar and singing was my way of crying. Votes: 0

Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar. Votes: 0

A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes Votes: 0

A good player can make any guitar sound good. Votes: 0

I can play the air guitar really, really well. Votes: 0

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool. Votes: 0

I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now. Votes: 0

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45. Votes: 0

We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter. Votes: 0

I always call myself a "student" of the guitar. Votes: 0

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two. Votes: 0

Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar. Votes: 0

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'. Votes: 0

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught. Votes: 0

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy. Votes: 0

Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records. Votes: 0

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers. Votes: 0

My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar. Votes: 0

I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar. Votes: 0

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players. Votes: 0

I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old. Votes: 0

I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar. Votes: 0

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument. Votes: 0

I just want to be a guy with a guitar. Votes: 0

I think guitar is the best thing in the world. Votes: 0

In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly. Votes: 0

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar. Votes: 0

I play guitar because it lets me dream out loud. Votes: 0

I just want to be a better guitar player, really. Votes: 0

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. Votes: 0

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose. Votes: 0

He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell. Votes: 0

Even though I play guitar, I don't do it publicly. Votes: 0

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind. Votes: 0

My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar. Votes: 0

I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se. Votes: 0

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument. Votes: 0

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived. Votes: 0

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument. Votes: 0

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar. Votes: 0

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good. Votes: 0

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few. Votes: 0

I've always been on a personal mission to save the guitar. Votes: 0

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar. Votes: 0

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano. Votes: 0

The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book. Votes: 0

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano, Votes: 0

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums. Votes: 0

I've never stopped working on songs and practising singing and guitar. Votes: 0

I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar, Votes: 0

My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan. Votes: 0

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands. Votes: 0

I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl. Votes: 0

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have. Votes: 0

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday. Votes: 0

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else. Votes: 0

All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth. Votes: 0

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music. Votes: 0

Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. Votes: 0

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven. Votes: 0

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed. Votes: 0

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music. Votes: 0

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing. Votes: 0

Sometimes, you don't need a $5,000 guitar - you need $5,000 worth of lessons. Votes: 0

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public. Votes: 0

I love to play the guitar. I also love photography and fashion. Votes: 0

It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style. Votes: 0

Surf music is played through a Showman amp with a Stratocaster guitar. Votes: 0

Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like. Votes: 0

I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar. Votes: 0

I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player. Votes: 0

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table. Votes: 0

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums. Votes: 0

I'm not trying to play the guitar. I'm trying to play music. Votes: 0

God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play. Votes: 0

He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar. Votes: 0

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing. Votes: 0

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar... Votes: 0

I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings Votes: 0

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me. Votes: 0

All I've got is a red guitar, three chords and the truth. Votes: 0

I'm not Amy the star, I'm Amy the girl with the guitar. Votes: 0

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid. Votes: 0

My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had. Votes: 0

I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut. Votes: 0

I did play every little note on the guitar on that record Votes: 0

I've got my girl and my guitar, and for me that's enough. Votes: 0

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune. Votes: 0

Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me! Votes: 0

I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail. Votes: 0

You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar. Votes: 0

When I sit down and play the guitar, Im 20 years old again, Votes: 0

I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do. Votes: 0

Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing. Votes: 0

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those. Votes: 0

The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo. Votes: 0

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else Votes: 0

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion. Votes: 0

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own. Votes: 0

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do. Votes: 0

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different. Votes: 0

It's a complicated relationship with a guitar. I love the Bullet, for sure. Votes: 0

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else. Votes: 0

I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar. Votes: 0

Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever. Votes: 0

Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar. Votes: 0

I'm still constantly learning and that's what keeps me excited about the guitar. Votes: 0

When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone. Votes: 0

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around. Votes: 0

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection. Votes: 0

To speak your Heart outnothing can be better than Night and Acoustic guitar !! Votes: 0

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive. Votes: 0

Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out. Votes: 0

Barney Kessel is incredible. He's just amazing . . . . Nobody can play guitar like that Votes: 0

From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code. Votes: 0

You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar. Votes: 0

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play. Votes: 0

I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday. Votes: 0

I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings. Votes: 0

My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half. Votes: 0

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk. Votes: 0

I would hole up in my bedroom growing up and teach myself guitar. Votes: 0

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again. Votes: 0

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college. Votes: 0

I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting. Votes: 0

Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh. Votes: 0

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people. Votes: 0

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar. Votes: 0

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated. Votes: 0

The Hamsters really kick ass - Slim is one of your greatest guitar players Votes: 0

Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies. Votes: 0

I bet a chef could get more pussy than a guitar player right now. Votes: 0

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well. Votes: 0

No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn. Votes: 0

I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at, Votes: 0

I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar. Votes: 0

I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’ Votes: 0

I play enough guitar to get by. I don't like to play guitar live. Votes: 0

The guitar is a meditative tool to touch God and find love within yourself. Votes: 0

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing. Votes: 0

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar. Votes: 0

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar, Votes: 0

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar. Votes: 0

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school. Votes: 0

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar. Votes: 0

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream. Votes: 0

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player. Votes: 0

To play the guitar well is easy, to play the guitar poorly is difficult. Votes: 0

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar. Votes: 0

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin. Votes: 0

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal. Votes: 0

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth. Votes: 0

I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon. Votes: 0

I'm most comfortable when you just give me a guitar and I just sing. Votes: 0

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else. Votes: 0

I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats. Votes: 0

But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it. Votes: 0

Nick Zinner has been one of my favorite guitar players for a long time. Votes: 0

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians. Votes: 0

Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar. Votes: 0

Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons. Votes: 0

I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube. Votes: 0

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar. Votes: 0

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles Votes: 0

Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts. Votes: 0

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles. Votes: 0

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'. Votes: 0

If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar.. Votes: 0

With music, I'm comfortable singing to people but I'm not that comfortable playing the guitar. Votes: 0

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year. Votes: 0

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer. Votes: 0

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist. Votes: 0

With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE. Votes: 0

Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar. Votes: 0

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. Votes: 0

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player. Votes: 0

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing. Votes: 0

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world. Votes: 0

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived. Votes: 0

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord. Votes: 0

If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar.. Votes: 0

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business. Votes: 0

If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar.. Votes: 0

It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam. Votes: 0

What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano. Votes: 0

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming. Votes: 0

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Votes: 0

I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar. Votes: 0

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well. Votes: 0

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either. Votes: 0

I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players. Votes: 0

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time. Votes: 0

People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time. Votes: 0

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends. Votes: 0

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it. Votes: 0

A guitar is more than just a sound box... it is part of your soul. Votes: 0

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds. Votes: 0

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar. Votes: 0

All I do is sit at home and play guitar. That's seriously what I do. Votes: 0

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs. Votes: 0

When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it. Votes: 0

Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide. Votes: 0

I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special. Votes: 0

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs. Votes: 0

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo. Votes: 0

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs. Votes: 0

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time. Votes: 0

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me. Votes: 0

I wasn't thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time.. Votes: 0

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp. Votes: 0

I find it to be an ongoing challenge to keep the guitar from becoming too traditional. Votes: 0

When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day. Votes: 0

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed. Votes: 0

My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks. Votes: 0

I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards. Votes: 0

I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune. Votes: 0

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too. Votes: 0

I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar. Votes: 0

I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did. Votes: 0

Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent. Votes: 0

My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music. Votes: 0

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB. Votes: 0

It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana! Votes: 0

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar. Votes: 0

I won't be able to live without my guitar, my phone or my boots on tour. Votes: 0

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors. Votes: 0

My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it. Votes: 0

If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar, Votes: 0

Doctor, if I put this here guitar down now I ain't never going to wake up. Votes: 0

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band. Votes: 0

It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life. Votes: 0

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time. Votes: 0

I will always love the guitar as long as I'm alive, the Blues is my heart. Votes: 0

In any moment, I guess we could whip out a guitar and start playing old school. Votes: 0

I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did. Votes: 0

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination. Votes: 0

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there. Votes: 0

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies. Votes: 0

I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels. Votes: 0

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing. Votes: 0

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass. Votes: 0

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back. Votes: 0

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar. Votes: 0

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Votes: 0

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke. Votes: 0

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits. Votes: 0

If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson Votes: 0

If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go. Votes: 0

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe. Votes: 0

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. Votes: 0

I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music. Votes: 0

When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar. Votes: 0

I pet my cat like a guitar, but I hold him like a stack of musical pancakes. Votes: 0

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs. Votes: 0

Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar. Votes: 0

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school. Votes: 0

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing. Votes: 0

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument. Votes: 0

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt. Votes: 0

For the record, if I were Superman, a pale, scrawny guy holding a guitar would be Kryptonite. Votes: 0

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing. Votes: 0

I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand. Votes: 0

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar! Votes: 0

Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me. Votes: 0

Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray. Votes: 0

She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat. Votes: 0

All my best girlfriends play guitar now, which is kind of a funny world to live in. Votes: 0

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do. Votes: 0

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11. Votes: 0

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight. Votes: 0

I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music. Votes: 0

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film. Votes: 0

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ. Votes: 0

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up. Votes: 0

Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage. Votes: 0

Well, harpsichord is kind of a big guitar, isn't it? I mean, it is plucked, after all. Votes: 0

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song. Votes: 0

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not. Votes: 0

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that. Votes: 0

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos. Votes: 0

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms. Votes: 0

What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four. Votes: 0

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar. Votes: 0

You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on. Votes: 0

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker. Votes: 0

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish. Votes: 0

When I have the opportunity, I want to perform the guitar live for my fans. Please expect that! Votes: 0

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes. Votes: 0

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker. Votes: 0

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar. Votes: 0

When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you. Votes: 0

Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano. Votes: 0

My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I'm a true blues man. Votes: 0

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator. Votes: 0

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Votes: 0

I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing. Votes: 0

I bought me a guitar about a year ago, learned how to play in a day or so. Votes: 0

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song. Votes: 0

As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment. Votes: 0

It's really cool what you can do with a guitar and a Fender Twin and a space echo. Votes: 0

I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes. Votes: 0

I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun. Votes: 0

If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all. Votes: 0

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. Votes: 0

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player. Votes: 0

Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21. Votes: 0

Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man. Votes: 0

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums. Votes: 0

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then. Votes: 0

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. Votes: 0

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. Votes: 0

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music. Votes: 0

Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing. Votes: 0

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar. Votes: 0

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again. Votes: 0

My guitar, I sing of thee 'Tis with thee that I decoy And ensnare enchantingly the ladies I enjoy. Votes: 0

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn't get bored anywhere. Votes: 0

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view. Votes: 0

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound. Votes: 0

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts. Votes: 0

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal. Votes: 0

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar. Votes: 0

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar Votes: 0

I went straight out of high school, and when I was 17, all I wanted to do was play guitar. Votes: 0

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around. Votes: 0

Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive Votes: 0

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock. Votes: 0

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal. Votes: 0

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living Votes: 0

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar. Votes: 0

I think a rocking chair should at least be able to play air guitar before you call it rocking. Votes: 0

I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar. Votes: 0

The guitar is like a cuisine and you can't expect people to eat the same thing all the time. Votes: 0

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs. Votes: 0

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play. Votes: 0

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe. Votes: 0

Whether I'm making my own record, or playing a guitar part, I want what I do to have an impact. Votes: 0

I play piano (bit of guitar) and I sing and I love to jam and harmonize with other musical people. Votes: 0

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs. Votes: 0

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like. Votes: 0

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do. Votes: 0

But the day that I die will be the day that I shut my mouth and put down my guitar. Votes: 0

When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around. Votes: 0

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him. Votes: 0

I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it. Votes: 0

I play the guitar and the piano and have a group of guys who I play with. They're uber talented. Votes: 0

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think. Votes: 0

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent. Votes: 0

If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you Votes: 0

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come. Votes: 0

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat. Votes: 0

I'm trying to think about stuff like that: How can a show not be just a whining guy with a guitar. Votes: 0

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it Votes: 0

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. Votes: 0

I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month. Votes: 0