Guitar Quotes

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.

Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.

My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.

I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight.

A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.