Guitar Player Quotes
- words of wisdom and some not so much...
My first love was the sound of a guitar.
Boz Scaggs
Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.
Mark Knopfler
It's been through three wives. To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.
Waylon Jennings
Precision instruments are designed to achieve an idea, dimensional precision, where perfection is impossible. There is no perfectly shaped part of the motorcycle and never will be, but when you come as close as these instruments take you, remarkable things happen and you go flying across the countryside under a power that would be called magic if it were not so completely rational in every way.
Robert M Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintanance.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley
I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.
Jeff Beck
I used to learn chords off of guitar books. In songbooks they have the little guitar things, even though I can't play the guitar. I would work it out from the little dots.
Fiona Apple
Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.
Syd Barrett
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
Syd Barrett
I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.
George Benson
I'm an old rocker. I used to appreciate Buddy Holly. I once carried Eddie Cochran's guitar for him when I was 8 years old.
Marc Bolan
The guitar chose me.
Charlie Byrd
I find humming is very useful.
Elvis Costello
A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.
Charlie Daniels
I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.
John Fogerty
The first take always has spontaneity. That's the same way I approach guitar solos. I never figure out solos anymore. I basically just have a wing it kind of approach.
Ace Frehley
My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.
David Gilmour
I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.
Buddy Guy
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
Jimi Hendrix
I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.
James Hetfield
T-Bone Walker - he give me my first electric guitar. I was already established but not electrified.
John Lee Hooker
I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.
John Lee Hooker
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.
John Lee Hooker
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. King
My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.
Lenny Kravitz
My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.
Johnny Lang
I began to learn a lot of his chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time, but came in very handy later on.
Alvin Lee
I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.
Brian May
The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
Brian May
John and I were sitting 'round playing guitar, and we were with Donovan. I started playing chords, just messing around, and we started just to write them down. They came very quickly.
Paul McCartney
I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.
Dave Mustaine
During overdubs, I'd pick up whatever looked interesting at the moment or whichever guitar I hadn't played yet. I like having such a broad palette to dip into.
Dave Navarro
I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
Ted Nugent
I actually stole my first electric guitar. The start of my rock'n'roll lifestyle!
Andy Partridge
I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G,C, and D. I was off to the races son!
Jerry Reed
The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
Lou Reed
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Keith Richards
I didnt have a drug problem, I had a police problem.
Keith Richards
My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
Johnny Rivers
Not knowing any better, instead of working out something and keeping both, I traded my Strat on the red 335, which is the guitar I wound up using on all those hits.
Johnny Rivers
We're the luckiest people in the world, because as long as there's a studio somewhere I can work, and I can always drag a guitar along. We have both traveled all of our lives, so it's not too straining.
Chris Robinson
And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.
Kid Rock
I don't pay much attention to how a guitar's made, really. I just pick 'em up and if I like the way they sound, I want them!
Neil Schon
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.
Brian Setzer
I just love that Explorer. They haven't made too many good ones, but the '76 I've got is a killer. It's kind of an ugly guitar, but boy it responds like crazy.
Tommy Shaw
Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab.
Charlie Sheen
An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.
Sting
I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.
Stephen Stills
It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.
James Taylor
Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.
George Thorogood
So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
To get a big, fat sound that punches out I pop the strings with either my second or third finger. Usually I'll hold the pick but ignore it, and get my second or third finger under the string, pull it and let go. Basically, it's what modem bass players do - it gives me a real bright, peppier tone.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
I never liked mellow sounding guitar.
Tom Verlaine
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.
Doc Watson
I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.
Johnny Winter
Jimi was always at The Scene when he was in New York and we played many times together. He was just everywhere - he went out and jammed everywhere he was.
Johnny Winter
My folks got me a single cutaway Kay. It was acoustic but it also had a pickup. That's the guitar I learned to play on.
Carl Wilson
Financially we have no reason for playing live anymore, but it's for the magic!
Ron Wood
God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.
Link Wray
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
Zakk Wylde
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
Zakk Wylde
I saw all the women and I figured that looked good. I was horney. I got a guitar off my brother and started playing anything.
Angus Young
I just go where the guitar takes me.
Angus Young
I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
Warren Zevon
