Quotes About Guitar

I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.

I always loved singing because I grew up in a very musical family. My mom wasn't able to do music professionally because her parents wanted her to get a 'real job,' but she played guitar.

I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.

I listen to other people's stuff and, more and more, you realise how much is layered and how many different guitar parts there are.

Wanting to play the guitar was neither a wild dream nor a realistic ambition. It was simply inevitable.

Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.

I'll watch the Grammys and think, 'You hardly even see people playing guitar,' and it freaks me out.

I challenged myself to carry on the style of guitar that my grandmother did: the Carter scratch.

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

I was mostly self-taught on guitar and that had its benefits. It's a great thing to work through problems on your own.

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

It's actually not that hard to play guitar in a rock band.

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.

My ambition was just to be able to play guitar.

I've been playing a Fender since 1963, and before that it was my dream guitar. I can't endorse it more than that.

As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

On my fourth or fifth birthday, a guitar was given to me, and I made a new friend. A very loud friend.

I like playing guitar I don't like talking about it. I like writing riffs, I don't like explaining them.

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.