Guitar Quotes - page 2

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive. (Colin Greenwood)

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

Dick Dale

For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.

Dweezil Zappa

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

Glenn Frey

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.

Graham Coxon

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.

Gary Cherone

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

Gary Cherone

Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

Ikue Mori

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

Leo Kottke

I did play every little note on the guitar on that record.

Lita Ford

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar. (Daisy Berkowitz)

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

Mike Figgis

But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.

Mike McCready

There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.

Rick Derringer

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

Roger Daltrey

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

Tina Weymouth

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

Trevor Dunn

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

Teena Marie

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

Victoria Jackson

Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.

Vivian Campbell

The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand. (Bruce Springsteen)

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.

John Frusciante

I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues-the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.

Keith Richards

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

Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they're all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist.

Ritchie Blackmore

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