Best Guitar Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 25

“You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.”

Author:Lou Reed

“I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.”

“I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.”

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Author:Jeremy Renner

“Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.”

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Author:Oscar de la Renta

“Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.”

Rocks Guitar Bass Banging

Author:Little Richard

“If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.”

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

Giving Mean Music Give Me Guitar Musical Bored Piano Strings Brooms

Author:Keith Richards

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

Thinking Play Running Millions Guitar Organisation

Author:Keith Richards

“A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'”

People Want Said Enough Play Guitar Guests Mexican Vocalist

Author:Carlos Santana

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

People Dream Possibility Hero Guitar Hendrix Guitar Hero

Author:Carlos Santana

“I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.”

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Author:Carlos Santana

“Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.”

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Author:Andres Segovia

“Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.”

Men Two Order Taken Dog Shapes Creatures Guitar Size

Author:Andres Segovia

“I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.”

Stills Play Three Wife Guitar

Author:Andres Segovia

“The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.”

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Author:Andres Segovia

“When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.”

Writing Causes Guitar Circles Composer Vicious Guitarist Virtuoso Vicious Circles

Author:Andres Segovia

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

Causes Common Weapons Guitar Fiddle Banjos

Author:Theodore Bikel

“Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.”

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Author:Rob Sheffield

“Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.”

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Author:Paul Simon

“My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.”

Enough Voice Instruments Structure Guitar Melody Good Enough Guitarist

Author:Paul Simon

“I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.”

Two Havens Musician Guitar Aspiration Seconds

Author:Slash

“Guitars are like women. You'll never get them totally right.”

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Author:Slash

“If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.”

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Author:Elliott Smith

“My sunglasses are like my guitar.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.”

I Can Real Play Skills Six Musician Guitar Intuitive Chords Technical Skills

Author:Patti Smith

“Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.”

Next Okay Guitar Destroyed Concerts Next Day

Author:Patti Smith

“When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.”

Song Guitar Singers Drunk Rhythm Guitarist

Author:Robert Smith

“The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.”

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Author:Robert Smith

“I'm surrounded by great guitar players.”

Player Guitar Guitar Player

Author:Rick Springfield

“I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.”

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Author:Rick Springfield

“When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.”

Two House Growing Up Growing Guitar Two Things Rock N Roll

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.”

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Author:Ringo Starr

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

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Author:Ritchie Blackmore

“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.”

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Author:Ritchie Blackmore

“I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.”

Important Guitar Guitarist

Author:Ritchie Blackmore

“But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.”

Giving Whole Bits Guitar I Realized Whole Life Volume

Author:Ritchie Blackmore

“I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.”

Ifs I Can Turns Jazz Guitar Turn-on Guitarist

Author:Ritchie Blackmore

“I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.”

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Author:Ritchie Blackmore

“In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.”

Used Player Fingers Guitar Reputation Guitar Player

Author:Ritchie Blackmore

“Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.”

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Author:Cat Stevens

“What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.”

Reason Boys Dad Faults Guitar My Dad

Author:Rod Stewart

“An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.”

Found Mines Guitar Canada Uncles Attics Friends For Life

Author:Sting

“If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.”

Ifs Feels Should Instruments Guitar Intimidated Guitarist Synthesizers

Author:Andy Summers

“I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.”

Wells I Can Play Guitar Favourite Collecting Jimmy Guitarist Paige Mayer

Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.”

Writing Firsts Song Practice Guitar Be Good

Author:Taylor Swift

“The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.”

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Author:Serj Tankian

“I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.”

Writing Guitar Wander Guitar Music

Author:James Taylor

“It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.”

Happens Mouths Guitar Coming Out Delightful Delightful Things

Author:James Taylor

“I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.”

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Author:James Taylor

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