Guitar Quotes - Page 5

I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.

You don't find a style. A style finds you

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why I like it . . . The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that’s my idea of a good time.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

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.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels.

I play guitar because it lets me dream out loud.

Never assume that simply having a gun makes you a marksman. You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar.

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

Over the years I hope I've become more of a musican and less of a guitarist.

Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

A man can never have too many pairs of sunglasses or too many guitars.

The guitar is a meditative tool to touch God and find love within yourself.

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

It's always funny to me when people use the phrase 'Best guitar player in the world'. There are too many variables such as technique, uniqueness, emotional investment in the notes, etc. But If I had to pick one, it would be Tommy Emmanuel. Watching him perform can be a study in artistic and virtuosic human achievement.

You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you're committed. Little careful noise doesn't work. You have to be bold.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.