Guitar Quotes - page 8

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums. (Imogen Heap)
Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo. View quote
J Mascis
I'm learning on the guitar all the time. View quote
James Vincent McMorrow
My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world. View quote
Jack Antonoff
I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord. View quote
Jerry Reed
I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday. View quote
Jesse Plemons
There's something about approaching universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere, and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life. View quote
Jim Croce
So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble. View quote
John Entwistle
T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around. View quote
Johnny Winter
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. View quote
Johnny Winter
I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever. (Jonny Lang)
I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking. View quote
Jordan Gavaris
In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks. View quote
Kevin Eubanks
James Brown is the reason I play guitar. View quote
Kevin Eubanks
I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit. View quote
Kevin McKidd
When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock. View quote
Kim Deal
I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life. View quote
Kip Winger
The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick. View quote
Kelly Jones
The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment. View quote
Leo Kottke
God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play. View quote
Link Wray
I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time. (Lita Ford)
So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to. View quote
Lee Ann Womack
So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others. View quote
Lee Ann Womack
I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations. View quote
Madeleine Peyroux
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar. View quote
Marc Almond