Quotes About Guitar

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

Some are skeptical. My mom thought the guitar was going to fizzle out in two weeks, that it was just a fad-and that was in 1958.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.

I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

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.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

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

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.

Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.

I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.