Best Guitar Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 31

“We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care, we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough.”

Long Stills Hard Enough Play Use Shows Care Purpose Energy Records Guitar Don't Care Tunes Amazed Feedback Professionalism Retarded

Author:Kurt Cobain

“If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.”

Ifs Mean Soul Guitar Bangs Superstar

Author:Krist Novoselic

“I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.”

Guitar Christmas Christmas Present

Author:Robin Trower

“Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.”

Lasts Past Share Mom Dad Guitar Musical Christmas Italian Last Time Session Jam Harmonicas Musical Experience

Author:Tony Visconti

“I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons... My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.”

Giving Faces Answers Teacher Lessons One Day Beats Guitar Bored Electric Electric Guitar Toffee

Author:Simon Cowell

“There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.”

People Thinking Play Can Do Player Harder Guitar Bass Bass Players Playing Bass

Author:Graham Coxon

“If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert”

Ifs World Would Be Gun Guitar Concerts Replaced Replacements

Author:Thomas Ian Nicholas

“For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.”

Way Play Song Guitar Classic Old Fashioned Orchestra Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Synthesizers

Author:Marc Almond

“I leave scientists mentally scarred, Triple Extra Large, Wild like rock stars who smash guitars.”

Stars Rocks Scientist Guitar Hip Hop Rap Extras Rock Star

Author:Inspectah Deck

“First of all, who's your A&R? A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar? But he don't know the meaning of dope, When he's lookin for a suit and tie rap That's cleaner than a bar of soap! And I'm the dirtiest thing in sight, Matter of fact, bring out the girls and let's have a mud fight.”

Knows Firsts Matter Play Facts Girl Fighting Mountain Sight Guitar Hip Hop Rap Bars Suits Ties Electric Mud Soap Matter Of Fact Dope Cleaners Climbers Electric Guitar Mountain Climbers Suits And Ties

Author:GZA

“But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.”

Should Writing Reality Able Song Voice Instruments Guitar Be Good Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Dweezil Zappa

“Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.”

Feels Acting Alive Singing Guitar Playing Guitar

Author:Taryn Manning

“In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Song Player Heard Band Singing Guitar Singers Guitar Player Describe Me

Author:Glenn Tipton

“So I go to the studio, and just say, 'Hi Paul, it's me, Rusty.' I think I kept it together pretty well, although I was pretty nervous. And before the day is over I'm playing guitar, and there's Paul McCartney over there, playing his Hofner bass and singing. All I can do is think, 'This life is so so bizarre.'”

Thinking Wells I Can Together Life Is Can Do Singing Guitar Studios Nervous This Life Bizarre Bass Playing Guitar

Author:Rusty Anderson

“I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.”

Want Believe Political Opportunity Politics I Believe Player Rocks Politician Mets Band Guitar I Believe In Guitar Player Rock Bands

Author:Billy Bragg

“When I usually use a theremin during a set, it feels...it feels good, because I get to take a break from playing guitar, it's a little rest, really, and I know that it's only five or ten minutes until the show ends and I can get a drink.”

Knows Feels Littles I Can Ends Use Shows Break Five Minutes Drink Ten Guitar Feel Good Lazy Playing Guitar

Author:Jon Spencer

“Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.”

People Mind Persons Ends Song Given Doubt Fate Missing Right Now Instruments Green Guitar No Doubt Annoying Reverence Annoyed

Author:Jonny Greenwood

“The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.”

Way Different Real Tradition Guitar Musical Being Real Being Different Lizards Guitar Playing Real Education

Author:Arto Lindsay

“I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums first and foremost. I don't reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Wells Important Done Play Bits Sound Originals Instruments Trade Guitar Technique Obsessed Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Being Original Jack Of All Trades

Author:John Bonham

“Buckethead [former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist] is probably twice as good a guitar player as me and Slash combined, and can stand having fried chicken rubbed up against his face all night for a couple of hours.”

Faces Night Hours Player Couple Gun Rose Guitar Former Chickens All Night Guitarist Guitar Player Fried Chicken Guns N Roses

Author:Dave Mustaine

“Mogami cable is durable and flexible enough to practically build a suspension bridge with but I'll settle for using it for my guitars and amps!”

Enough Guitar Bridges Settling Flexible Cables Suspension

Author:Dave Mustaine

“We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was - it was just a combination of some weird guitar sounds, and the way I exhaled between lyrics. I had to sing 'Better by You, Better Than Me' in court, a cappella. I think that was when the judge thought, 'What am I doing here? No band goes out of its way to kill its fans'.”

Thinking Way Ideas Sound Week Fans Judging Band Six Messages Court Guitar Combination No Idea Courtroom Subliminal Subliminal Messages Guitar Sound

Author:Rob Halford

“That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar”

Play Together Song Behinds Guitar Reasoning Bass Neat

Author:Tom Araya

“When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.”

Firsts Bigs Five Fingers Guitar Strings

Author:Les Paul

“I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.”

Want Use Notes Guitar Maps Solo Hook Guitar Playing Guitar Solos

Author:Brian Setzer

“It's really funny, I think to myself... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things don't change.”

Thinking Rooms Bigger Guitar Don't Change

Author:Brian Setzer

“My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.”

Made Player Jazz Guitar New Yorkers Guitar Player

Author:Brian Setzer

“I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music”

Firsts Guitar First Love Banjos

Author:Doc Watson

“I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people”

People Thinking Play Would Be Guitar Confusing

Author:Doc Watson

“I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.”

Knows Want Littles Moments Bits Attitude Struggle Battle Little Bit Guitar Conquer Necks Tunes That Moment Bent

Author:Jack White

“You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock and roll you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues.”

Want Wells Play Would Be Rocks Figures Train Guitar Deeper Rock And Roll Digging Niche Headings

Author:Jack White

“I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.”

I Can Mouths Guitar Communicate

Author:Jimmy Page

“Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.”

World Love Is Fine Guitar Tension Another World Trance

Author:Jimmy Page

“My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.”

Way Years Play Individual Wish Style Identity Periods Guitar Albums

Author:Jimmy Page

“My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.”

Years Guitar My Favorite All Time Solo Guitar Solos

Author:Jimmy Page

“Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.”

Want Feels Writing Self Sex Guitar Myth Surrender Muse Having Sex Chained Fetish Taekwondo

Author:Jay Lake

“Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man's thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance.”

Knows Men Together Night Song Sound Term Lines Bears Approach Complexes Males Guitar Fats Hunting Thighs Fat Man Deviance Chasers

Author:Thom Yorke

“Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it’s more difficult.”

Knows Mean Sex Difficult Know How Clothes Guitar Acoustics Having Sex Acoustic Guitar

Author:Dave Mustaine

“'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.”

Men Beautiful Music Guitar Destroyed Beautiful Things Recognise

Author:Pete Doherty

“As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it...it's a humbling experience.”

Knows World Forget Music Player Musician Experience Jazz Guitar Musical Producers Composer Singer Songwriters Guitar Player Humbling Nashville Argentina Humbling Experiences

Author:Mark Knopfler

“A good player can make any guitar sound good.”

Sound Music Player Jazz Guitar Musical Guitarist Guitar Player Guitar Music Guitar Sound

Author:Mike Bloomfield

“I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.”

Knows I Can Play Know How Guitar Rhythm

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.”

Ifs Thinking Want Giving Trying Whole Records Band Waste Negative Guitar Wasting Time

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.”

Hard Use School Guitar Puberty

Author:Rick Springfield

“Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive”

Thinking Play Whole Body Guy Music Guitar Bunch Hollow Herbs

Author:Les Paul

“When I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become ... this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit .. he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we (The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow.”

Real Hard Guy Song Music Saws Generations Killing Guitar Suits Rough Cream This Guy Real Things Our Generation Hendrix Howlin Wolf

Author:Eric Clapton

“... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a jug of wine, just playing from the heart.”

“Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.”

Should Play Able Funny Hours Inspiring Music Picks Guitar Rhythm Sections Guitarist Rhythm Section

Author:Joe Pass

“When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to !”

Music Player Guitar Relate Guitar Player Memphis Mack

Author:Richard Betts

“Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.”

Thinking Persons Sometimes Music Wonderful Musician Notes Guitar Excellent Idols Frank Vans Rock Music Guitarist Reinvention Van Halen Zappa

Author:Ritchie Blackmore

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