Guitars Quotes

He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

We've got horse property and there's other stuff to do. Like, four wheel driving, we barbeque, drink beers, sit around and play guitars and have a merry 'ol time.

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

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.

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

I'm full of dust and guitars.

I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

Tone on jazz guitars is a real tough issue.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

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

I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.