Guitar Quotes - page 41

For me," he explains his mammoth project, "it is an obligation to know and learn to understand the various styles living within the guitar, to work with them and pursue them up to a certain point and, when I feel I have learned enough about them, to let them go again. These CDs are a form of pool, a rucksack with everything I have at the moment and what I have focused on. (Andreas Paolo Perger)
But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go. View quote
Eric Clapton
My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice. View quote
Eric Clapton
I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up. View quote
Eric Clapton
The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it. View quote
Eric Clapton
I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy. View quote
Eric Clapton
If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar. View quote
Kirk Hammett
Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties. View quote
Kirk Hammett
Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar. View quote
Kirk Hammett
I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. View quote
Kirk Hammett
When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing a big powerful sound. I mean, no one ever forgets their first Marshall amp. (Kirk Hammett)
I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more. View quote
Kirk Hammett
Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time. View quote
Kirk Hammett
Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why. The one we used had a nice clean, warm sound, and it blended well with the other amps that were in the studio. View quote
Kirk Hammett
It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos. View quote
Kirk Hammett
I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats. View quote
James Hetfield
I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them. View quote
James Hetfield
Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town. View quote
Hugh Laurie
The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous. View quote
Robert Smith (musician)
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. View quote
Billy Bragg
You neither can nor should understand what it means. Listen, it comes without guitar, Neither in rags nor in any purple fashion. And there is nothing in it to comfort you. (Donald Justice)
I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano. View quote
Norah Jones
I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot. View quote
Norah Jones
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. View quote
Charlie Daniels
Back around 1971, I was playing in a bar in Chicago one night, and after the show, I was packing up my guitar and stuff, and I was walking out the door, and a little guy stopped me. And he said, "Arlo, before you leave, I wanna sing you a song." I said "Come on man, I don't wanna hear no songs. I hate songs. I don't even like my songs! Why should I like your songs?" I was just tired, I wanted to get out of there, I was being a butt-head. He said, "Arlo, I just wanna sing you one song." I said, "Tell you what. Buy me beer. I'll sit here and drink it. As long as it lasts, you can do whatever you want." He said, "That sounds like a good deal." View quote
Arlo Guthrie