Best Guitar Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 14

“I never wanted to play guitar when I was younger. I wanted to be a drummer because everybody plays guitar, and I didn't want to do what everybody else wanted to do.”

Want Play Wanted Guitar Drummer

Author:Jack White

“The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.”

Years Has Beens Interesting Heard Rocks Guitar Punk Punk Rock

Author:Geoff Rickly

“I couldn't even have a guitar. But I got a three-track recorder that was so small that I could take it with me. Then I started recording and writing properly. I recorded lots of voices, not just my own. I was interested in people speaking and singing English and trying out words.”

People Writing Trying Three Voice My Own Singing Guitar Track Recorders

Author:Jenny Hval

“When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's gone. And how bad life is and all that. Why can't it be something happy with the blues? Why can't it have a hip-hop beat to which you can do the dances of today?”

Thinking Today Life Is Can Do Gone Cry Kings Beats Guitar Hip Hop Hips Hops Bad Life

Author:Ike Turner

“Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.”

Names Guitar Songwriting Satisfying Household Envious Guitar Playing

Author:David Byrne

“I met Jason Mraz when he had a concert in Korea as a cover contest winner of his songs! He was super nice to even tune the guitar that I also won from the contest for me and we decided to jam to one of his hit songs, ”Lucky”. I actually don’t remember how I was able to sing because I was so nervous at the time but it would also be a dream come true if i can have the honor to share the stage with Jason Mraz one day!”

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Author:Megan Lee

“I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar!”

Writing Song Watches Dog My Family Guitar Shopping My Dog Watch Movie

Author:Megan Lee

“Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.”

Reality Air Guitar Virtual Reality Air Guitar

Author:Robert J. Sawyer

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

One Day My Friends Guitar Good Times Knocking Irs Had A Good Time

Author:Janis Ian

“I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.”

Trying Care Hours Player Planets Sitting Guitar Being The Best Guitar Player Sitting Around Could Care Less

Author:Scott Ian

“My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.”

Mines Picks Guitar Necks Electric Twins Cousin My Birthday My Cousin Electric Guitar

Author:Sam Palladio

“I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated.”

Guitar Heavy Complicated Metals Heavy Metal Classical Guitar

Author:Cory Arcangel

“An artist creates songs and timeless moments that are reflections that impact culture, and you can do that in any way - with guitars, ukelele, a computer. So, that will never die. It's always the artist behind the computer, not the computer.”

Way Moments Artist Song Dies Culture Can Do Behinds Computer Reflection Impact Guitar Timeless

Author:Skrillex

“Usually now a song starts just in my head with a melody or a lyric idea coming first.Then typically I'll go to a guitar, unless it's a instrumental then I'll usually build it on a keyboard instrument.”

Firsts Ideas Song Instruments Guitar Melody Keyboards

Author:Eliot Lewis

“I was playing guitar before I heard The Beatles, but as I got older and listened to their tunes I realized they were amazing. They inspire me more now than they did when I was a kid and are still the greatest.”

Stills Kids Heard Inspire Guitar I Realized Tunes Playing Guitar

Author:Noel Gallagher

“I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.”

Song Mistake Happened Crazy Machines Guitar Mess Faster Gigs Acoustics Cover Ups Improvising New Songs Acoustic Guitar

Author:Violante Placido

“Let me live my life the way I want to.”

Way Want Let Me Guitar Be You Living My Life Just Be Yourself I Live My Life Good Living Nice Life Live For Yourself Not Jealous Just Being Me Purple Haze

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“I remember first seeing Barney Kessel, in the 1940s, standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, in his cowboy boots, sun glasses and hipster threads, holding his guitar case man, you just knew that cat could wail!'”

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Author:Anita O'Day

“Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan, Stephen King, and Dave Barry-a band that, according to Barry, "plays music as well as Metallica writes novels".”

Writing Wells Made Play Novel Successful Rocks Kings Band Guitar Bottom Bass Amy Dave Metallica Bass Guitar

Author:Otto Penzler

“I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.”

Needs Littles Comfortable Guitar

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.”

Mean Stills Guitar Rhyme

Author:Lauryn Hill

“I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.”

Writing Doe Has Beens Might Song Picks Guitar Shoes Might Have Been

Author:Tom Felton

“The best thing is I can say 'I'm working' when I'm having a cup of tea and a cigarette and fiddling on the guitar.”

I Can Guitar Cups Tea Best Things Cigarette Cups Of Tea

Author:Ben Howard

“I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them.”

Goes On Guitar Playing Guitar

Author:James Young

“I used to be a lot more engaged on an improvisational level than other people. I was always on tour and always had a guitar in my hands, and when I went back home, my battery was at full charge. I had a lot of energy to get off, just impulses that I could draw upon.”

People Home Hands Used Energy Levels Draws Guitar Used To Be Impulse Engaged Back Home Batteries

Author:Bradford Cox

“Doctor, if I put this here guitar down now I ain't never going to wake up.”

Ifs Doctors Wake Up Guitar

Author:Huddie William Ledbetter

“I can play the air guitar really, really well.”

Wells I Can Play Air Guitar Air Guitar

Author:Jessie J

“If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.”

Ifs My Own Guitar Brands

Author:Pete Townshend

“After the Ed Sullivan Show, Feb. 9, 1964, at approx. 8:04pm [laughs], after that moment every album, every guitar, evey set of drums that was ever sold ... 10% should have gone right into their pocket!”

Should Moments Shows Laughing Gone Should Have Guitar Albums Pockets That Moment Ed Sullivan

Author:George Thorogood

“You can't go on stage and live - it's false all the way. I can't stand the premise of going out in jeans and a guitar and looking as real as you can in front of 18,000 people. I mean, it's not normal!”

People Way Mean I Can Real Stage Fronts Goes On Normal Guitar Going Out Jeans Premises

Author:David Bowie

“The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus.”

People Matter Alive Importance Grateful Guitar What Matters

Author:Pat Martino

“Claude Debussy defined the guitar as an expressive harpsicord. I believe that is the best definition ever given of the Spanish guitar. This phrase is the starting point for my Concierto de Aranjuez Our guitar is the only survivor of the rich and anarchic instrumental wildlife of the Middle Ages.”

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Author:Joaquin Rodrigo

“I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.”

Writing Guitar Keyboards

Author:Brian May

“I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.”

World Real Kids Essence Guitar Guitar Music

Author:Brian May

“My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.”

Thinking Wanted Remember Player Happenings Guitar Mum Surgeons Guitar Player

Author:Brian May

“Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh.”

Ifs Sometimes Lasts Goes On Guitar

Author:Brian May

“I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.”

Play Bits Mines Musician Guitar Buddy

Author:Jensen Ackles

“Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from.”

Enough Feelings Player Guitar My Favorite Guitar Player Hendrix

Author:Robin Trower

“The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do, so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what it is.”

Ifs Guitar

Author:Robin Trower

“Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.”

Tables Guitar Electric Picnics Electric Guitar Strumming

Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

“Among the guitarists, Wes Montgomery is fantastic. He's always good to let you know what the art form is all about. It's the same still life that everybody is painting, but in comes Wes Montgomery, and it's right there!”

Knows Art Stills Form Painting Guitar Fantastic Guitarist Still Life Montgomery

Author:Bill Cosby

“The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.”

Player Couple Band Guitar Electric Horns Drummer Electric Guitar

Author:Keith Richards

“Some people are just really goofy kind of guitar acts, and they go out and do these colleges and start making a fortune pretty early on. And other people - I know guys who are great comics, who've done the Letterman show many times, who still barely pay their bills.”

People Knows Kind Stills Done Shows Guy Pay College Bills Fortune Guitar Goofy Letterman

Author:Greg Giraldo

“1962 to 1965, where suddenly the guitar became this icon of youth culture all over the world, thanks mostly to the Beatles. Add to that, that I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times, and that the guitar was the one instrument that my parents absolutely refused to let in the house. So you add it up and see that irresistible forces led me to the guitar.”

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Author:Pat Metheny

“... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.”

Persons Player Normal Guitar Astonishing Guitar Player Superhuman Django

Author:Jeff Beck

“I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.”

Writing Might Artist Song Lines Share Happenings Guitar Therapy Piano Visuals Writing Songs Visual Art Sketching Visual Artist

Author:Erykah Badu

“I was more into music, before I got into college. In high school, I used to play guitar and sing. I did a lot of that. But, when I graduated and went to college, I remember my freshman year and this girl from across the hall, who is one of my good friends to this day, had a brother who was in the school improv team. We went to go watch a show and it blew my face off.”

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Author:Steven Yeun

“How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It's not a big, epic Hollywood score but really personal and intimate, and we thought guitar would be the perfect instrument for him because he's young and he has an undying spirit and all that stuff and we went on that feeling totally.”

Way Feelings Bigs Would Be Wanted Young Spirit Stuff Perfect Hollywood Instruments Guitar Intimate Score Epic

Author:A. R. Rahman

“There were basically three themes. One was the sun theme which is the guitar when he'd get sun on his leg and it comes again in the end. And there's of course the lullaby which Dido sang, "If I Rise." And then there's this driving guitar which is the motivation theme.”

Ifs Ends Motivation Three Courses Sun Guitar Legs Driving Theme Lullaby Dido

Author:A. R. Rahman

“I played a couple of ideas and then had this unusual texture underneath which was like this little granulated kind of pipe organ almost like a scratchy record which he started [inaudible] brilliantly. "Oh I love that song." And when things go fine, it's good. So he started loving that song and that song was used quite a lot in the movie which is very granulated stuff on the guitar.”

Kind Littles Ideas Used Song Stuff Records Fine Couple Guitar Unusual Organs Pipe Texture Pipe Organs

Author:A. R. Rahman

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