Guitar Quotes - Page 39

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

I've got holes in my guitar.

I didn't want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At the time, I remember thinking, "I am making a Faust album." That didn't translate.

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.

Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

A guitar is a piece of wood, and if this piece is resonating in a period of 40 or 60 years, it kind of gets to know what it is after awhile... the reason violinists play violins that are hundreds of years old. The wood learns to sing.

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way

I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

If I see a chick playing guitar, I'm drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it's completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you're male. I can't help it. It's part of my nature.

Link Wray is the all-time legend.

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.

In my opinion, if you buy a ticket to see me you're buying experience. People don't want to see me stand there and play guitar, they want to party with us.

I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.