Best Guitar Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 36

“The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.”

“Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.”

Literature Guitar Deceiving Flattering Housework Barns Flatterer Deceiver Evil Women Curvy Women

Author:Hesiod

“To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.”

Artist Creativity Practice Player Guitar Starting Designer Guitar Player Good Art Fathom Starting Out Good Artist

Author:Jessica Hische

“I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.”

Firsts Two My Own Singing Guitar Singers Separation Feds

Author:Shawn Colvin

“But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.”

Men Firsts Believe Lasts Stuff Heard Cat Guitar Freak X Men Hendrix

Author:Terry Kath

“I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.”

Pain Growing Up Knowing Growing Anger Guitar Horrible Coming Out Not Knowing Homeless Guitar Playing Horrible Life

Author:Dave Mustaine

“A man can never have too many pairs of sunglasses or too many guitars.”

Men Guitar Pairs Sunglasses

Author:Richie Sambora

“I didn't marry a Beatle, I married a broke student who played the guitar and ponced all my grant money off me for fags.”

Students Married Guitar Broke Grants

Author:Cynthia Lennon

“I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.”

Guitar Range Subtlety Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way”

Way Looks Kind Dad Guitar My Dad Electric Electric Guitar

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it”

Firsts Girl Tree Dancing Guitar Grandfather Palms My Grandfather Acoustics Palm Trees

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.”

Art Natural Effort Produce Guitar Harmonious Guitarist

Author:Manuel de Falla

“The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.”

Possibility Instruments Guitar

Author:Manuel de Falla

“You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person - writing a song that moves people is worth more than all the other nonsense. (Just look at Bob Dylan - he's got almost no vocal range at all, but his songs are deeply moving and iconic.) If I had to offer one piece of advice: Write a song that moves people, and write it from within yourself. Your personal narrative is more engaging and moving than anything else you can imagine in your mind.”

People Ifs Writing Mind Looks Persons Moving Song Voice Pieces Imagine Player Advice Offers Guitar Narrative Range Being The Best Nonsense Bob Engaging Dylan Vocal Guitar Player Iconic One Piece

Author:Ryan Ross

“My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar”

Thinking Way Trying Years Ideas Bigs Kids Certain Culture Records Guitar Statements Big Ideas

Author:Duncan Sheik

“I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests.”

I Can Use Feelings Language Lines Tree Feet Demand Bird Logic Notes Guitar Musical Metaphor Forests Desert Poetic Solo Crowded Violin Guitar Solos Stomping Musical Notes

Author:Noah Cicero

“I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.”

Brother Guitar My Brother Playing Guitar

Author:Tom Chapin

“A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.”

Wells Important Guitar Scream

Author:Robin Trower

“I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.”

Feels I Can Today Player Guitar Guitar Player

Author:Robin Trower

“I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.”

Want Instruments Guitar Irreplaceable

Author:Robin Trower

“If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.”

Ifs Guitar If I Could Guitarist

Author:Robin Trower

“Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.”

Play Faces Bigger Guitar Smile On My Face

Author:Niall Horan

“I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.”

Way Play Guitar Noise Loud Loud Noises

Author:Kim Thayil

“A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.”

Enough Guitar Piano Purity Being Played

Author:Barry Mann

“I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.”

Persons Wanted Courses Impossible Guitar

Author:David Bromberg

“I won't be able to live without my guitar, my phone or my boots on tour.”

Able Guitar Phones Boots

Author:Skylar Laine

“I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.”

Writing Sometimes Reason Helping Fun Guitar Help Me Meter

Author:Jack Prelutsky

“I started playing guitar kind of by accident.”

Kind Guitar Accidents Playing Guitar

Author:Ryan Cabrera

“I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.”

Littles Made Player Fans Huge Mets Stones Guitar Extremes Statements Temples Pilots Down The Road Guitar Player Somewhere Down The Road

Author:Gary Cherone

“The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.”

Trying Voice Records Player Treats Guitar Tone Guitar Player

Author:Gary Cherone

“And a lot of the technique and the little T-Bone phrases that define his style, Chuck Berry, when he rearranged the beat, they became rock 'n roll guitar licks. So in essence, T-Bone was not only the first electric blues guitar player, but he was the first electric rock 'n roll guitar player, really.”

Firsts Littles Player Rocks Style Beats Essence Guitar Bones Technique Phrases Rock N Roll Electric Guitar Player Chuck Berries

Author:Duke Robillard

“Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Hole”…Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as if he knows the lyrics but would never tell. Where the M.G.’s suavely underplayed their aggression, the rockers’ multiple-guitar attack, with distortion and feedback, gives the music teeth.”

Ifs Knows Giving Stills Sound Guitar Holes Teeth Melody Aggression Multiple Feedback Potatoes Distortion Rockers Pithy

Author:Jon Pareles

“I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.”

Instruments Guitar

Author:Trevor Rabin

“Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.”

Use Too Much Havens Color Guitar Playing Guitar

Author:Trevor Rabin

“I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.”

School Teach Good Things Guitar

Author:Jimmy Page

“Larry Carlton is an incredibly versatile guitarist who has been a major force for guitar for many years. He is easily recognizable - all you have to do is hear him once and from that point on you'll be a fan, just like me. It gives me great pleasure to extend congratulations to Larry on his 2011 George Benson Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations !”

Giving Years Has Beens Force Pleasure Fans Achievement Majors Give Me Lifetime Guitar Like Me Awards Congratulations Larry Guitarist Versatile Lifetime Achievement

Author:George Benson

“If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you”

Ifs Picks Guitar Take Me

Author:Frank Zappa

“This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model.”

Years Gone Design Building Mass Models Instruments Guitar Customs Mike Bass Collaborating Lulls

Author:Jeff Ament

“People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.”

People Forget Picks Guitar Motivated Aggressive Punk

Author:Siouxsie Sioux

“Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.”

Ifs Mean Stills Sound Guitar Hooked Guitar Sound

Author:Leo Kottke

“I just go where the guitar takes me.”

Guitar Take Me

Author:Angus Young

“No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.”

Inspirational Long Matter Play Guitar

Author:Tom Petty

“It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style.”

Country Language Style Fingers Guitar

Author:Kenny Loggins

“Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.”

Stuff Hours Fronts Computer Music Is Machines Guitar Studios Lifestyle

Author:Mark Ronson

“God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.”

Way Guitar Strings

Author:Dave Van Ronk

“I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.”

People Whole Player Areas Guitar Technique Glad Like Me Guitar Player

Author:Richard Thompson

“Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.”

Ifs Thinking Lying Asks Worry Guitar Telling The Truth You Again Cover Ups

Author:B. B. King

“One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.”

Ideas Player Life And Living Guitar Crucial Guitar Player Gallagher

Author:Rory Gallagher

“It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana!”

Knows Feels Guitar Guitarist Samurai

Author:Miyavi

“The expertise displayed by each musician is jaw-dropping and it's matched by their sensitivity and taste... Lizzy Hoyt displays equal mastery of the fiddle, harp and guitar, complemented by an otherworldly voice. To top it off, she comes across as a truly natural and relaxed, people loving performer.”

People Voice Natural Taste Equal Musician Guitar Performers Mastery Display Sensitivity Relaxed Dropping Expertise Harps Matched Fiddle Lizzy Jaw Dropping

Author:Jim Sinclair

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