Guitar Quotes

I'm really looking forward to it, if you can imagine floating weightless, watching the world pour by through the big bay window of the space station playing a guitar; just a tremendous place to think about where we are in history.

I just rediscovered my guitar.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.

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

I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

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.

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

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

It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music.

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

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

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.

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

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

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

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.

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.

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

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

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

Guitar players never listen to lead singers.