Quotes About Guitar

I guess I was a child actor. Acting was one of the things I did alongside going to school: I'd be playing guitar, I'd be playing soccer, and I would be acting in movies.

I don't feel like I deserve to have to do a guitar pull with four brand-new artists when I've sold millions of records.

I learned guitar solely for the purpose of meeting women. I'd heard it's a great lady-catcher.

I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.

My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.

The best slide solo I ever played was on... what's her name? That girl singer who used to be with that all-girl band? ... Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go's! That's who it was. I played on one of her albums.

I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

I can't play a solo without thinking about John Jorgenson. I always think about what he would do.

Most blues guitar players don't concentrate on singing and melodies. And forget about the bridge - the bridge doesn't exist. They go straight for the solo.

A great solo is one that's so frail that it actually teeters on the edge of falling apart, but doesn't.

I played all the guitar parts except the guitar solo on 'Beat It.'

The first song on my first album is not a song - it's a guitar solo! It's called 'Frenzy,' and it's pretty much nonstop maniacal guitar playing. I had just turned 19, and I had some serious muscle then.

The guitar player that I'm doing my solo tour with, Angel Vivaldi, he's been releasing incredible guitar albums and people just don't really know about them because instrumental guitar isn't really at the forefront of music these days.

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

Most people can do what I do - they can do guitar solos - but they can't do a good, hard rhythm guitar and be dedicated to it.

I don't labour over my lead guitar solos; they're better just caught in the moment.

I used my Schecter for all my rhythms and most of my solos, certainly the fast solos.

I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my own stuff or play solos. I can accompany myself 'cause most songs are, like, four chords.

Jimi Hendrix's 'Electric Ladyland' and 'All Along the Watchtower,' those solos are just so cool.

I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.

Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song... Thank God for country music.

It's a complicated relationship with a guitar. I love the Bullet, for sure.

alcoholic. To Quinn, for whom alcohol was a touchy simile, the truth was this: playing guitar was the single occasion in his slight and baffling life when he had the power to deliver exactly the thing another human being wanted. He