Guitar Quotes - Page 23

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there.

A guitar has moonlight in it.

And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

I never wanted to play guitar when I was younger. I wanted to be a drummer because everybody plays guitar, and I didn't want to do what everybody else wanted to do.

A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.

Doctor, if I put this here guitar down now I ain't never going to wake up.

It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.

You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the drums... You only notice the guitar when it's not there.

Shut Up and Play your Guitar.

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

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.

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar.

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also will use any gadget or device that I find that helps me achieve the sort of sound on the guitar that I want to get.

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

Mogami cable is durable and flexible enough to practically build a suspension bridge with but I'll settle for using it for my guitars and amps!

Yeah. I started using them [SDD-3000s] shortly after first working with Edge on The Unforgettable Fire. Basically, I stole his sound. It wasn't a complicated rig: just a guitar he liked through a Korg SDD-3000 digital delay into a Vox. Three components, mono - that's it. The great thing about the Korgs is its three-position level switch, which lets you hit the amp with about 10 extra dB. It's more overdriven than if you just plugged the guitar straight into the amp, even when it's on bypass. But a lot of the guitar sounds on Achtung Baby were recorded through a Korg A3 effects processor.

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.