Quotes about Your Guitar

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions. Votes: 4

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting. Votes: 4

Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class. Votes: 4

Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened. Votes: 4

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time. Votes: 3

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar. Votes: 3

If you can't play as good or as fast as me, just give up, sell your guitar on eBay and kill yourself. Votes: 3

Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar. Votes: 3

Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself. Votes: 3

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine. Votes: 3

Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it. Votes: 3

Dave walked closer to me, his dark eyes combing my every move. "Do you always hold your guitar like that?"I dropped my pick. "Do you always shop at Hot Topic~? Votes: 3

Return to the beginning. Enter by form. Clean your dojo. As you have every day, tie on the white belt and empty your cup. Pick up your guitar, tune, then play. Votes: 3

You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot - I don't really play with picks. Votes: 3

Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty Votes: 3

Approach your guitar intelligently, and if there are limits, don't deny them. Work within your restrictions. Somethings you can do better than others, some things you can't do as well. So accentuate the positive. Votes: 3

All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes. Votes: 3

At certain point, you realize it's easy to play music for the rest of your life: just don't sell your guitar. Maybe you get a day job, but as long as you have a guitar, you can play. Votes: 3

If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just like burst into a monologue. Your only exercise is when you're in prep or you're working. Votes: 3

Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then, you get a big ovation while the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around. Votes: 3

If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had. Votes: 3

I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm really inspired by your guitar playing.' I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear. Votes: 3

Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts. Votes: 2

I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces. Votes: 2

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. Votes: 2

Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd. Votes: 2

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune. Votes: 2

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality. Votes: 2

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing. Votes: 2

When you play guitar and strum, you're using biceps and triceps to move up and down. I realized you could just turn your wrist, your forearm, using smaller muscles in your arm that are much more efficient and much quicker. Votes: 2

I bought one of those Learn How to Play Guitar Chords By Yourself and it shows you the diagram where to put your hands and I took that in my room, sat with my singles and learned how to play guitar. Votes: 2

But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body. Votes: 2

I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers. Votes: 2

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all. 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

What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people. Votes: 2

For 20 years I've been screaming at these guitar companies, saying, 'It's abnormal to put your arm around an acoustic guitar that is about 6 to 8 inches deep.' Your arm reaches over, and you start to strum, and then all of a sudden you get a charley horse in your back. The older you get, the greater the charley horse. Votes: 2

As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music. Votes: 2

Shut Up and Play your Guitar. Votes: 0

My guitar wants to kill your mama. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful. Votes: 0

If you can strike the cord of consistency on the guitar of life, the world will dance to your music of greatness Votes: 0

Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it’s more difficult. Votes: 0

My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar. Votes: 0

You can play guitar in your canteen, you know, your hair might be longer, but there's a lot more to playing than travelling around universities and things. Votes: 0

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is. Votes: 0

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come. Votes: 0