Guitar Quotes

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

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

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

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.

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

I'm not a good guitar player.

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

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

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

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

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

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.

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

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

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

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

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Haner the guitar guy, the tour manager and a writer. We laugh ourselves silly. Apparently we're going to have a road dog, a miniature pincher. It's the smallest they've ever seen. How masculine am I going to look, working with dolls and a miniature dog?

I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.

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

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

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.