“When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, when it's really open and bare. You can often mislead yourself if you start with computers and samples and programming because you can disguise a bad song.” IfsWritingSongComputerTestsGuitarProgrammingDisguiseMisleadAcousticsSampleAcoustic Guitar Author:Martin Gore
“For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release - not to be stuck in one spot the whole night. It's really enjoyable having the freedom to move around. You just have to remember to end up somewhere near a microphone.” YearsEndsWholeRememberMovingNightBitsBehindsGuitarStuckSpotsReleaseEnjoyableKeyboardsMicrophonesPlaying GuitarRigs Author:Martin Gore
“I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.” LittlesI CanKidsBitsLittle BitMusicianToolsGuitar Author:Matt Ross
“Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.” LongAgeLong TimeJazzGuitarElectricBassPlaying Jazz Author:Joshua Roman
“Phil Robson is a disturbingly good jazz guitar player!” PlayerJazzGuitarGuitar Player Author:Dave Liebman
“There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart. One sound comes from a chamber orchestra, the other from the beating of the heart's chamber. One comes from an instrument of graphite and wood, the other from an organ of flesh and blood. This loftier music I speak of tonight is more pleasing than the notes of the most gifted composers, more moving than a marching band, more harmonious than a thousand voices joined in hymn and more powerful than all the world's percussion instruments combined. That sweet sound of love.” WorldHeartKindTwoMovingSpeakSoundVoicePowerfulBloodSweetThousandBandInstrumentsNotesGuitarWoodsFleshTonightStringsComposerOrgansGiftedOrchestraChamberHarmoniousHymnsFlesh And BloodPercussionMarching Band Author:Michael Jackson
“I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more.” IfsNeedsPlayBitsGuitarFishingJam Author:Robbie Robertson
“I wanted to develop a guitar style where phrases and lines get there just in the nick of time, like with Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper. Subtleties mean so much, and there is a stunning beauty in them.” MeanWantedLinesStyleGuitarPhrasesSubtletyStunning Author:Robbie Robertson
“At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums ' They were Indian drums. And I was saying, 'But that guitar. That guitar. Girls are going to like that guitar.'” AgeYoungGirlGuitarIndianWowYoung AgeFiddle Author:Robbie Robertson
“Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists” DreamWantedBabyGuitarIndulgeGuitaristDentistBoomersBaby Boomer Author:Tim Brookes
“A Guitar Store Is The Only Place In The Known Universe Where A Guy Will Allow Himself To Shop Like A Woman” GuyUniverseKnownGuitarStoresShops Book:Guitar: an American life Source: Guitar: an American life
“It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.” HoursMountainGuitarMilesRidingMotorcycle Author:Arlo Guthrie
“I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.” PlayKidsGuyWhiteRocksFrontsQuietBandEgoAmbitionGuitarSuitsRock N Roll Author:George Harrison
“The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.” MadeKidsFacesSecretRecordsAliveStreetsRocksBandMachinesPaidGuitarDebtHungryContactRock N RollFlashUnseenBladesHustleHunted Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I used to work in jobs I hated because I needed the money to buy a guitar. I know what it feels like to be depressed. On the other hand, I also know what it feels like to have money, to be successful, to be independent, but I can tell you that money and success never solve your problems.” KnowsFeelsI CanProblemHandsJobsUsedSuccessfulNeededIndependentGuitarSolveHatedBeing Successful Author:Chris Cornell
“My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.” IfsWritingI CanSongDown AndGuitarTherapyMy Best FriendAmazing Song Author:Miley Cyrus
“Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.” PersonsHandsSpaceWalksStepsSeeingPositionGuitarPotFar AwayNothingnessOuter Space Author:John Frusciante
“Lindsey [Buckingham] and I went up to Aspen and we went to somebody's incredible house and they had a piano and I had my guitar with me and I went in their living room, looking out over the incredible Aspen sky and I wrote 'Landslide.'” HouseRoomsSkyGuitarIncrediblesPianoLiving RoomLandslidesAspens Author:Stevie Nicks
“Practice, practice, practice. Practice until you get a guitar welt on your chest...if it makes you feel good, don't stop until you see the blood from your fingers. Then you'll know you're on to something!” IfsKnowsFeelsPracticeBloodFingersGuitarFeel GoodChestsMake You Feel Good Author:Ted Nugent
“I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.” PlaySchoolActingGuitarBusy Author:Kaitlyn
“A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing.” IfsKnowsYearsKindReasonPlayMusicPiecesPeriodsGuitarWoodsViolinViolinistResonating Author:Dave Genn
“You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes... it's nice to have different paints on your palette.” DifferentEnoughNicePaintGuitarShoesPalette Author:Dave Genn
“It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber? Guitar manufacturer? Writer .... yeah, writer. I've always loved writing, from a very early age--I guess I was writing my first stories when I was still in single digits. It progressed, and the love of writing grew in my mind and is still growing. Doing it full-time, there are different stresses and tensions, and the business side of it comes to the fore sometimes. But I still love it, and I'm always thankful that I can do what I do and make a living from it.” ThinkingWritingMindFirstsStillsI CanDifferentSometimesStoriesAgeSidesCan DoCasesGrowingGrewSittingStressDown AndYeahGuitarTensionPilotsAirlineSitting DownPlumberThinking RightAirline Pilots Author:Tim Lebbon
“I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.” FunHellPlayerAssumingGuitarLike MeMagazinesHaving FunMailGuitar Player Author:Joe Satriani
“When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.” ThinkingTodayGuitarGuitar Playing Author:Joe Satriani
“I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.” PlayOne ThingGuitar Author:Joe Satriani
“When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is pushing the boundaries, I just say, "let's step back for a minute and admit something: nothing has happened for the last 100 years." And it's okay. It's not a bad thing ... We're all working with "tools" that have been in existence for the last 100 years and there hadn't been a new "tool" for a long long time.” YearsLongHas BeensLastsStuffExistenceStepsHappenedMinutesLong TimeToolsOkayGuitarBoundariesPushingBad ThingsMags Author:Joe Satriani
“I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.” ActorsGroupsCoupleGuitarFolksUnderwearMaking A LivingBurritos Author:Alan Arkin
“Most of the time I sit down with my guitar or at the piano, and I play for awhile until I get a new riff or groove that I like a lot. Then I'll concentrate on building around that line of thought by adding words and textures. At first I'm only trying to please myself, and hopefully what I like will appeal to others.” TryingFirstsPlayLinesBuildingPleaseGuitarHopefullyAppealsPianoTextureGroove Author:Jackie DeShannon
“Trey Spruance didn't want to tour for ages. And Dean Menta has always been our guitar-roadie during Angel Dust, and I remember him playing fantastically during soundchecks. During each gig, he was watching from the side of the stage, seeing Big Jim play stuff that he could play better.” WantPlayBigsAgeRememberStuffSidesSeeingStageAngelGuitarDustGigsDean Author:Mike Patton
“I've lived on my own since I was 13 and not been to school and brought a son up who's now 18 and run theatre companies and bought a butcher's shop, learnt guitar by myself, taught myself to sing and that sort of stuff.” RunningSchoolStuffMy OwnCompanyTaughtSonGuitarTheatreShopsButchers Author:Stella Vine
“I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.” HumansWantedEmotionGuitarHuman Emotions Author:B. B. King
“I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.” ThinkingGuitarDestroyedDamnHendrixPlaying GuitarDamn Good Author:Brian May
“One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.” HeartStillsGuyWishAnswersSpecialCatInstrumentsGuitarRuinsBlessRuinedHendrixWailing Author:Keith Richards
“I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I am a composer and a producer.” I CanPlayQualityMusicianPerformancesGuitarProducersPianoComposerRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.” LiteratureRaceSonBabyHarmonyGuitarSolomon Author:Toni Morrison
“The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.” PeopleSoulFeelingsMovingVoiceSimpleWrittenSingingGuitarPoetry IsLots Of MoneyJeopardy Author:Anton Yelchin
“I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it.” PeopleYearsStillsI CanPlayHelpingBehindsFrontsBandHundredHarderGuitarShouldersNervousOver YouBehind YouAcousticsAcoustic GuitarBombastic Author:Robin Zander
“Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.” MindIdeasTogetherTalentUniqueGuitarMind SetGuitar Playing Author:Slash
“I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' [Dangler] basslines and said, "I don't like that, do something else." The same goes for the beat and the guitars. I think that's why we were able to make four albums together.” ThinkingSaidAbleTogetherSongIssuesFourHeardBeatsGuitarAlbums Author:Paul Banks
“I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.” WritingYearsFeltPlayerBandGuitarSingersCracksSongwritersGuitar PlayerWriting PoetryVocalist Author:Paul Banks
“Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time.” IfsWantWritingDoeTwoDifferentInspirationSongHeavenGuitarStealingDifferent ThingsAcousticsZeppelinsAcoustic GuitarStairwaysStairway To Heaven Author:Robin Thicke
“I do media every day I tour and the travel itself is a bit testing, so I don't get to do much gregarious activity when I'm on the road, but I do enough barbequing and enough hanging out and training with enough law enforcement and military to keep me bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and to make sure my guitar solos every night breath fire.” EnoughLawNightBitsFireMediaMilitaryActivityTrainingBreathsGuitarHanging OutEvery NightSoloLaw EnforcementEnforcementTestingGregariousGuitar Solos Author:Ted Nugent
“I'm hungry for purpose. I'm looking for still that reason that I bought a guitar and started a band, to fulfill a purpose, to manifest destiny as to who I am and why I am the way I am, and what I do. I think it's still about the music, the song and the story.” ThinkingWayStillsReasonStoriesPurposeSongDestinyBandGuitarHungryWho I AmManifestManifest DestinyI Am The Way I Am Author:Billy Ray Cyrus
“To me, the producer is there to make sure the album gets done and gets done as good as possible. So if that means that you have to help write a bridge or help write a part, that's what you do. If that means you help tune the guitars, then that's what you do. If that means all you do is tell the band their takes are good and they should stop f——— with things, then that's what you do. If it means you don't do anything except make sure the band doesn't fight, then that's what you do. Sometimes it's a little more stressful than others, but for the most part, you just don't complain about it and you just get it done.” IfsShouldWritingMeanLittlesSometimesDoneHelpingBandGuitarAlbumsComplainingProducersBridgesTunesStressfulGet It Done Author:John Congleton
“It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.” PeopleWayWritingHardPlayAbleTogetherSongGuitarSongwriters Author:Jack White
“Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me.” PlayFoundCommonTasteMusic IsGuitarCreepsCommon GroundRadioheadTaste In Music Author:Stephenie Meyer
“They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar.” TwoStuffDrinkCostGuitarPairsSugarPantsCentsElectricBrazilElectric GuitarTight Pants Author:David Lee Roth