Guitar Quotes

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
Thurston Moore

Another, Wanted, Hear

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.
Richard Thompson

Whole, Open, Players

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
Johnny Rivers

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.
Kip Winger

Life, Hard, Play

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.
John Denver

Play, Write, Songs

I just play the guitar and write songs.
John Denver

Play, Write, Songs

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.
Peabo Bryson

Again, Last, Couple

I did play every little note on the guitar on that record.
Lita Ford

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time.
Lita Ford

Time, Boring, Singer

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

Music, College, Playing

For 'Narrow Stairs,' the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.
Ben Gibbard

Time, Fun, Long

I just rediscovered my guitar.
Ben Gibbard

It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.
Jim Sullivan

Good, Together, Getting

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.
Jim Sullivan

Life, Music, Hope

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
Martin Gore

Down, Start, Whatever

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.
Jules Shear

Around, Beginning, Almost

I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.
Kimbra

Writing, Serious, Far

I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.
Michael Weatherly

Music, Age, School

When I moved to New York to act I was no good at working restaurants - hosting, waiting, bussing, dishwashing - I wasn't good at any aspect. But I did have a guitar. So I would sing 'Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard,' but you would only hear the chorus because the train comes by every 30 seconds.
Michael Weatherly

Good, Waiting, Down

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.
Ben E. King

Enough, Play, Write

During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it.
Neal Schon

Time, Name, Deal

Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.
George Thorogood

Time, Playing, Band

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.
Dustin Diamond

Dad, Play, Left

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.
George Benson

Today, Greatest, Actually

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
Dan Fogelberg

Old, Gave, Dancing

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

Love, Acoustic, Subtlety

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.
Brian Setzer

Down, Through, Keep

As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.
Jonathan Demme

Love, May, Young

I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.
Ryan Tedder

Around, Often, Times

I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.
Tom Perrotta

Dreams, Play, Next

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