Guitar Quotes - page 5

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. (Andres Segovia)
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. View quote
Andres Segovia
For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument. View quote
Andy Summers
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. View quote
Andy Summers
What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe. View quote
Andy Summers
I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards. View quote
Andy Summers
More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp. View quote
Andy Summers
There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. View quote
Andy Summers
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar. View quote
Andy Summers
I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar. View quote
Arthur Darvill
We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play. (Arto Lindsay)
I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article. View quote
Adrian Belew
I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs. View quote
Adrian Belew
Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year. View quote
Adrian Belew
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument. View quote
Bill Frisell
I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It's where my heart's at. View quote
Billy Unger
I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good. View quote
Billy Unger
I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that. View quote
Bobby Vinton
Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it. View quote
Bootsy Collins
I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice. View quote
Boz Scaggs
I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through. (Brian Setzer)
My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else. View quote
Brownie McGhee
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. View quote
Buddy Guy
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. View quote
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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. View quote
Barry Mann