Best Guitar Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 26

“In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.”

Fighting Fields Equal Exciting Guitar Equality 1960s Rebellious Marketplace Playing Fields Equality Of People

Author:Marlo Thomas

“To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.”

Stage Bravery Guitar Insanity Heroism Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Richard Thompson

“He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.”

Ifs Kings Guitar Links Rock N Roll Rumble

Author:Pete Townshend

“My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto.”

Kind Said Dream Used Fronts Sight Guitar Boots Plates Cowboy Motto License Truck Nashville My Motto Toyota Cowboy Boot License Plate

Author:Josh Turner

“Guitar players never listen to lead singers.”

Player Guitar Singers Guitar Player

Author:Steven Tyler

“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.”

Fighting Cities Player New York Band Angry Guitar Quitting New York City Dove Guitar Player I Quit

Author:Steven Tyler

“The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.”

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Author:Steve Vai

“Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.”

Bigs Player Fans Instruments Guitar Damn Being In Love Guitar Player Gamer Playing Guitar

Author:Steve Vai

“I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, 'I could put this guitar on this track...' and so on.”

Ideas Kids Young Song Sound Records Guitar Track Lists I Realized Captured Epiphany Zeppelins

Author:Steve Vai

“Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.”

Art Stills Helping Player Connections Instruments Guitar Connected Satisfied This Day Guitar Player

Author:Steve Vai

“So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.”

Trying Bigs Brother Guitar Playing Guitar Guitar Playing My Big Brother

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.”

Firsts Play Song Guitar Solo Ramones

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.”

Father Player Guitar Guitar Player

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it. I have big, sort of awkward hands. It's hard to keep going when you don't get any better.”

Hard Hands Bigs Kids Parent Lessons Guitar Very Good Piano Keep Going Awkward Piano Lesson

Author:Christopher Walken

“When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.”

Firsts Guitar

Author:Roger Waters

“I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.”

Thinking Way Writing Play Bigs Song My Own Guitar Glad Typical Crescendo

Author:Florence Welch

“Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.”

Persons Music Musician Guitar Frustration Aggressive Aggression Frustrated

Author:Paul Weller

“I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me.”

Ifs I Can Player Fine Good Things Guitar Recognition Guitar Player

Author:Paul Weller

“I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.”

Want Play Found Player Needed Guitar Bass Bass Players Bass Guitar Playing Bass Bassists

Author:Tina Weymouth

“I think guitar is the best thing in the world.”

“I would love to study guitar or trumpet.”

Music Study Guitar Trumpets

Author:Amy Winehouse

“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.”

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Author:Kip Winger

“I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.”

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Author:Steven Wright

“Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!”

I Can Play Shows Time Pay Drink Weight Guitar Beer Lifts

Author:Zakk Wylde

“There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.”

Guitar Architect Sabbath Guitarist

Author:Zakk Wylde

“I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.”

Exciting Guitar Driven Coming Out

Author:Al Yankovic

“Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.”

Looks Sometimes Guitar Things To Do

Author:Thom Yorke

“I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'”

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Author:Angus Young

“Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.”

Hard Play Left Stage Guitar Strikes Thrown Take Me Chords

Author:Angus Young

“Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'”

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Author:Angus Young

“I have no guitar technique.”

Guitar Technique

Author:Warren Zevon

“The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.”

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Author:John Zorn

“I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.”

Thinking Writing Music Heard Minutes Picks Guitar Fingertips

Author:Michelle Branch

“When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.”

Picks Guitar Bad Day Having A Bad Day

Author:Michelle Branch

“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.”

Ifs Play Hands Guitar

Author:Eric Clapton

“The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.”

Music Eternal Music Is Guitar Mortals Idiocy History Of Music

Author:Milan Kundera

“Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.”

Source: Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett

“And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.”

Littles Kids Sports Brother Guitar My Brother Little Kid

Author:Beau Bridges

“She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.”

Would Be Half Sea Planets Ocean Dancing Guitar Floating Moonlight Flamenco Turquoise

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!”

Guitar Sexy

Author:Malin Akerman

“You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.”

Music Guitar

Book:The Stand

Source: The Stand

“You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.”

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Author:Libba Bray

“I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.”

Want Looks I Can Ends Water Results Cases Guitar Oil Eggs Chocolate Sugar Fulfilling Recipes End Results Vanilla Flour Brownies

Book:The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

Source: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

“Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and driftwood and emerald earrings and books dropped in bathtubs and holes in guitars and plastic and empathy and hardwood and heavy water and high black stockings and the history of the Vikings and brass and obsolescence and burnt hair and collapsed souffles and the impossibility of not falling in love in an art museum with the person standing next to you looking at the same painting and all the other things that just happen and are.”

“There were drinks and food in full force, and some Moroi guy had a guitar out and was trying to impress girls with his musical skills—which were nonexistent. In fact, his music was so awful that he might have discovered a new way to kill Strigoi.”

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Book:Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel

Source: Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel

“In a way, watching an attractive, potentially dangerous guy play guitar is a little like watching a tiger agree to do tricks for his trainer. You know that they could just turn and kill you. But you're so flattered and pleased that instead they agreed to stand on a decorative box and wave and count for the crowd that for a while you forget how big the scary part of them really is.”

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Author:Merrill Markoe

“The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won't be a nothing anymore.”

Ifs World Want Doe Play Turns Heaven Band Standing Guitar London Beach

Author:Thom Yorke

“If you play "I Don't Want To Know" by Fleetwood Mac loud enough -- you can hear Lindsey Buckingham's fingers sliding down the strings of his acoustic guitar. ...And we were convinced that this was the definitive illustration of what we both loved about music; we loved hearing the INSIDE of a song.”

Ifs Knows Want Enough Play Song Fingers Guitar Hearing Convinced Loud Strings Illustration Macs Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Fleetwood Mac

Author:Chuck Klosterman

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