Best Guitar Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 24

“I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.”

“I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.”

Use Sound Concerned Guitar Technique Gadgets Guitar Sound

Author:Brian May

“Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.”

Way Whole Views Guitar Never Expect

Author:Brian May

“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.”

People Knows Want Feels Happens Emotion Singing Mouths Impact Guitar Anything Can Happen

Author:John Mayer

“I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.”

Wanted Player Guitar Singers Shock Songwriters Guitar Player Jocks

Author:John Mayer

“One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.”

Trying Stills Happens Song Music Sitting Guitar Piano Sitting Down

Author:Paul McCartney

“I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.”

Firsts Used Fool Guitar

Author:Paul McCartney

“George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.”

Happens Known Findings Anger Guitar Finding The One

Author:Paul McCartney

“I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.”

Stuff Band Guitar Scotland Pipe

Author:Ewan McGregor

“I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.”

Mind Play Successful Rocks Band Guitar Guitarist Rock Bands

Author:Ian Mcewan

“I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star.”

Feels Games Stars Ability Rocks Like You Hero Guitar Musical Rock Star Music Love I Love Music Musical Ability Guitar Hero

Author:Marisa Miller

“Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time.”

Art Enough Hands Bigs Kids Responsibility Organization Guitar Extras Enough Time Extra Time

Author:Joni Mitchell

“At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.”

Writing Trying I Can Seems Force Painting Happenings Picks Guitar Frustrated Brushes

Author:Joni Mitchell

“I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.”

Writing Trying Song Rooms Guitar Musical Hotel Cliche Hotel Rooms

Author:Moby

“When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands.”

Years Play Rocks Theory Lessons Band Jazz Guitar Nine Punk Classical Music Fourteen Punk Rock Nine Years Rock Bands Unlearn Playing Guitar Music Theory Classical Guitar

Author:Moby

“All I do is sit at home and play guitar. That's seriously what I do.”

Play Home Guitar

Author:Taylor Momsen

“I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a fear of failure, I guess.”

People Writing I Can Enough Play Song Fronts Guitar Chords Fear Of Failure

Author:Mandy Moore

“The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.”

Influence Guitar Wave Heavy British Affected Songwriting Metals Heavy Metal

Author:Dave Mustaine

“I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.”

Play Hours Stupid Jazz Guitar Size Hats Chests Solo Chevy

Author:Dave Mustaine

“My guitar was a loyal person to me.”

Persons Guitar Loyal

Author:Dave Mustaine

“And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.”

Stuff West Guitar Jimmy

Author:Willie Nelson

“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.”

People Writing Song Mom Dad Guitar My Mom Sat Birthday Songwriting Mom And Dad Classical Guitar Goya 16th Birthday

Author:Stevie Nicks

“I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.”

Ifs Bigs Able Wanted Used Behinds Instruments Guitar Mike

Author:Stevie Nicks

“I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.”

Hurt Picks Fingers Guitar Strings Guitar Strings

Author:Bill Nighy

“I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.”

Moments Spirit Attitude Fire Middle Rocks Wake Up Fingers Guitar Classic Parks Waking Rosa Middle Finger Classic Rock Gibson Guitars

Author:Ted Nugent

“I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.”

Made Play White Clean Guitar Blow Pace Buffalo Gibson Guitars

Author:Ted Nugent

“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.”

World Years Has Beens Rocks Gun Guitar Electric Finest Rock And Roll Electric Guitar

Author:Ted Nugent

“Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.”

Ifs Years Looks Doe Energy Player Guitar Scare Detroit Guitar Player Gamer Goofy Venison

Author:Ted Nugent

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

Hands Weapons Guitar Masterpiece Slayer Crafters

Author:Ted Nugent

“I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail.”

Guy Gun Guitar Dirty Loud Naughty Ponytails

Author:Ted Nugent

“Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.”

Planets Guitar Finest Gibson Guitars

Author:Ted Nugent

“I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.”

Would Be Faces Imagine Guitar Plastic Items Collectors Fetch

Author:Gary Oldman

“Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.”

Firsts Persons Different Character Six Approach Let Me Guitar Believe In Yourself Strings Amazed Being Different Guitar Playing Individual Differences Guitar Strings

Author:Jimmy Page

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

Believe Different I Believe Player Unique Guitar Rock N Roll Guitar Player Playing Guitar

Author:Jimmy Page

“My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.”

Building Army Harmony Guitar Songwriting Composition Vocation Building Up Uncompromising

Author:Jimmy Page

“As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.”

Writing Song Player Harder Guitar Impress Guitar Player

Author:Brad Paisley

“In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.”

Past Concerned Guitar Impress Typical Session Guitarist

Author:Brad Paisley

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

Writing Years Song Serious Guitar

Author:Dolly Parton

“When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe dances around.”

People Enough Play Shots Guitar Loud Flames Tribes Adrenaline Plugs

Author:Joe Perry

“Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.”

Certain Language Sound Common Player Guitar Describing Guitar Player Common Language

Author:Joe Perry

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

Views Guitar Point Of View Explaining

Author:Katy Perry

“I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little ditty songs that I would write, and I would get a couple of avocados, a bag of pistachios, and, like, fifteen bucks. That was a lot of money for me.”

Writing Littles Song Cases Couple Tests Guitar Bags Farmers Lots Of Money Fifteen Santa Bucks Barbara Avocados Santa Barbara Farmers Markets Pistachios

Author:Katy Perry

“Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.”

Littles School Parent Childhood My Family Guitar Camps Drag Hobbies Playing Guitar

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.”

Hell Heard Guitar Aspire Highways Vocal

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally. I walk around with a hat on. People don't know it's me.”

People Knows Shows School Young Walks Gone Records Influence Guitar Hats Honored Slides Youtube

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.”

People Needs I Can Might Song Hours Half Rocks Band Guitar Folks Contemporary Rock Bands Ballads Folk Songs

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.”

Hard Car Fit Guitar These Days Bass

Author:Dee Dee Ramone

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

World Today Player Guitar World Today Guitar Player

Author:George Benson

“The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.”

Important Play Guitar Playing Guitar Guitar Playing Velvet Underground

Author:Lou Reed

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