Guitar Quotes

A guitar is more than just a sound box... it is part of your soul.

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

Guitars are like women. You'll never get them totally right.

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained through some kind of white toast or something. It all sounds just too neat and perfect, with no surprise to it at all. No story, no nothing. It's like building cars, like an assembly line. It doesn't sound like anything that came from a guitar.

I just go where the guitar takes me.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

I have no fear of death, so I don't think about it. I love the adrenalin kick that danger brings. Others get their kicks bungee jumping from tall buildings. I'm very, very competitive. I want to be the best at everything I do. It's not driving - it's everything - it might be playing my guitar, I try to be the best at it as I possibly can.

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

I’m not trying to play the guitar. I’m trying to play music.

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.

Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.

I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.

Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.

The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.

But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

As far as being a 'player's player,' you've only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it...it's a humbling experience.

There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song.

Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.