Guitar Quotes - Page 47

This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out.

I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds.

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

When I heard Apache by the Shadows, that was it ! ...then there was a guitar player named Steve Gordon, he was "the player" in town ... I still remember him saying to me 'Is there any reason you're not using your little finger?.

I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.

For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the same psychic muscle (the Imagination), and working in one medium refreshed my appetite for the others.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.

Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.

My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.

I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.

I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to find myself and define a personality and a way of being different, and that's a thing that's going to help me to survive in a world of many people playing the guitar.

I like to make my guitar sound mean.

I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I was thirteen I got pretty serious about it.

I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings

I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.

Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.

I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.

With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.

Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.