Quotes About Guitar

I saw the Bangles before I was in a band. I really liked their rhythm. That was right when I was trying to learn how to play guitar. I was really frustrated because I couldn't strum, and then I saw Susannah Hoffs do this cool strum on a song, and it was my goal after that to learn how to do that strum.

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

So I started to learn guitar right away.

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.

The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.

I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.

I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.

We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman's shoes would not really be fair to anybody who had a conscience.

If somebody needed a guitar player for a tour and I was free and it was the right situation, I'd do it and it would be good fun. There would be much less pressure if I just had to stand there and play leads.

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.

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out.

I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar.

There's every other guitar player and then there's Chet. He transcended musical boundaries for more than fifty years. God only lays Chet Atkins on you once in a lifetime.

My first musical dream was to be a guitar player, and believe me, it's still in there.

I went from wanting to be a Beatle to becoming a 'widdly-widdly' guitar player.