I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
Ace Frehley

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
Ace Frehley

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
Ace Frehley

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.
Sting

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.
Joni Mitchell

Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.
Joni Mitchell

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.
Joni Mitchell

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
Lou Reed

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

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.
Tom Araya

I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.
Jeff Beck

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
Joan Jett

My sunglasses are like my guitar.
Patti Smith

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.
Paul Simon

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.
Paul Simon

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.
Shannon Hoon

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

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.
Dave Mustaine

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

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