Best Guitar Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 30

“I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living”

“I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.”

Two Voice Talking Singing Guitar

Author:B. B. King

“I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.”

Men Heard Guitar Singers

Author:B. B. King

“My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall, and the orchestra was playing. When the show started, the spotlight was sharp on this one man (Andres Segovia) and he had sombrero on and his guitar propped up like this and, oh man ... he was a master ! - I really heard it. That one guitar sounded like a whole orchestra to me.”

Men Trying Whole Shows Music Nice Wife Heard Masters Guitar Los Angeles Halls One Man Concerts Being Nice Exes Orchestra Symphony Spotlight Ex Wife Sombreros

Author:B. B. King

“If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.”

Ifs Play Song Guitar Piano Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Christopher Cross

“We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off.”

People Kind Wanted Wonderful Rocks Awareness Guitar Glad Loud Worn Great Times Gimmicks Wonderful Times Grunge

Author:Billy Corgan

“I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was, in a way, very basic. So all I wanted to have was drums and another guitar pretty much playing what I wrote on guitar, and I was just going to sing.”

Way Wanted Song Written Guitar

Author:Thurston Moore

“Jackson plays a broken guitar because he’s in love with it, and doesn’t want to fix it, I think. It’s so broken.”

Thinking Want Play Broken Guitar

Author:Nikki Reed

“You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.”

Knows Hard Fall Stage Drug Guitar Loud Kicks Volume

Author:David Gilmour

“Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.”

Writing Firsts Song Written Guitar Productions Bells Entertaining Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Taylor Momsen

“I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships. I've got a couple close relationships with friends, a close relationship with my family, and a close relationship with my guitar. I'll know if the right person comes along, and whatever then - cool - but it's not something I'm seeking out at the moment.”

Ifs Knows Persons Moments Stuff Fields Couple My Family Guitar Seeking Not Interested Right Person Frivolous Close Relationship

Author:Taylor Momsen

“Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.”

Inspirational Musician Guitar Gun Control Handguns Owning A Home

Author:Jeff Cooper

“I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time”

Thinking Audience Guitar Boring Singers Hanging On

Author:Lita Ford

“I did play every little note on the guitar on that record”

Littles Play Records Notes Guitar

Author:Lita Ford

“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”

Play Stuff Four Drink Horse Property Guitar Driving Beer Wheels Merry

Author:Lita Ford

“Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar.”

Play Attitude Rocks Guitar Rock And Roll

Author:Johnny Thunders

“I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.”

Country Felt Music Rocks Beats Guitar Rock N Roll

Author:Waylon Jennings

“The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women”

Two Guitar Firm Two Things Tunes Things In Life Life Worth Living

Author:Waylon Jennings

“I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.”

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Author:John Lee Hooker

“One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.”

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Author:Tommy Emmanuel

“Sometimes we woke up and feel like a Guitar Master, sometimes we woke up and feel like a complete fool. but that's the fun part of learning guitar”

Feels Sometimes Fun Learning Masters Fool Wake Up Guitar Singer Songwriters

Author:Tommy Emmanuel

“Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.”

Names Guitar Organs Psychedelic Drummer Trios Free Music

Author:Klaus Schulze

“Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band anyway, as soon as he arrived. I was in charge for the first five minutes, but as soon as Bono got there, I was out of a job.”

Firsts Wells Play Character Jobs Five Minutes Band Guitar Five Minutes Charismatic

Author:Larry Mullen, Jr.

“This PRS is perfect for anyone who wants an awesome quality, versatile, rockin' guitar at an affordable price. I love it; try it out!”

Want Trying Perfect Quality Guitar Affordable Versatile

Author:Orianthi

“My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.”

Writing Reason Play Kids Song Guitar Writing Songs Playing Guitar

Author:David Pajo

“Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.”

Men Way Girl Instruments Guitar Handle

Author:Eicca Toppinen

“Learning the notes on the fretboard is key to any guitarist's development on the instrument, and [Guitar] Trainer HD is a neat way to get that info burned into your brain without having to carry a guitar with you everywhere you go. Pretty cool!”

Way Brain Keys Development Instruments Notes Guitar Burned Neat Trainers Guitarist

Author:Bryan Beller

“Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies.”

Play Nice Cameras Guitar Melody Nice Picture

Author:Darren Rowse

“Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, Id like to study piano.”

Ifs Play Wanted Music Study Dad Guitar My Dad Piano

Author:Jackson Browne

“Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back.”

Thinking Way Girl Balls Guitar Sat Tennis Inventing Bras Playing Guitar Tennis Balls

Author:Dave Grohl

“If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.”

Ifs Want Challenges Bed Guitar

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.”

Beats Guitar Bass Drum And Bass

Author:Lou Reed

“I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.”

Perfect Player Guitar Alternatives Guitar Player Embodiment Cobain

Author:Billy Corgan

“My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.”

Father Player Standards Raised Guitar Guitar Player High Standards Guitar Playing

Author:Billy Corgan

“Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.”

Kind Seven Guitar Layers Radiohead

Author:Billy Corgan

“Listening is the key to everything good in music.”

Music Keys Listening Jazz Guitar Guitar Player

Author:Pat Metheny

“Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.”

Made Play Half Records Taught Absolutes Jazz Notes Guitar Albums Made It

Author:Pat Metheny

“From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles”

Culture Youth Guitar Thanks Icons Youth Culture

Author:Pat Metheny

“I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like.”

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Author:Dave Navarro

“I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.”

Song Waiting Music Guitar Find Me

Author:James Taylor

“I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.”

Kind Play Sound Guitar Starting Melody Starting Over Bass Keyboards Bass Guitar

Author:Squarepusher

“I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.”

Bigs Film Creative Grew Grew Up Baseball Cameras Guitar Bats

Author:Abel Ferrara

“When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.”

Want Country Lasts Cases Guitar Pops Singers Remembered Last Time Country Singer

Author:Eddy Arnold

“My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.”

Bigs Guitar Tunes

Book:Chronicles

Source: Chronicles

“I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.”

Firsts Voice Rich Taken Heard Guitar Soulful Guitar Playing

Author:Lucinda Williams

“Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.”

Knows Men Mind Wells Kind Play Wish Guitar Very Good Great Men

Author:Elvis Costello

“The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.”

Way Kind Song Heard Tradition Guitar Invention Meant To Be Bob Dylan

Author:Robert Fitzgerald

“We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.”

Use Listening Band Guitar Bored Ashamed Load Keyboards

Author:Thom Yorke

“If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour.”

Ifs Guy Next Hours Guitar Shoes Massive Coins

Author:Kurt Cobain

“What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc.”

People Realizing Grew Scene Picks Guitar Clubs Etc Dishes Baking Seattle Supper Boiling Gourmet Grunge Supper Time

Author:Kurt Cobain

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