Guitar Quotes

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.

There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

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

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.

I was a guitar player first off.

The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.

I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket.

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

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.

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