- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Guitar Quotes
How guitarists actually describe their own instrument.
These guitar quotes come straight from musicians, one describing a piano-or-guitar foundation as the backbone of an entire career, another comparing how guitar cuts through a mix differently than organ. For the emotional side of playing, see Passion quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.
- Nineties
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
- Mind
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen - that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it's enormously helpful for improvising.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I feel really fortunate that, in playing guitar and surfing, I've found two things that mean so much to me, and which really complement each other. There's definitely a spiritual thing to both of them; they totally connect you to a higher realm.
- Bird
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'
- Fans
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I've noticed over the years is that young players - I mean 10- and 12-year-olds - really like my guitar style. There's something in my guitar style that they totally can latch onto and learn quickly, and then go from there to your Yngwie Malmsteens or your Steve Vais or whatever.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.
- Happy
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I never took any guitar lessons or anything; I never really learned to play covers. I'm actually happy that I never took lessons as a kid. Now, I'd like to take lessons to kind of go deeper. But I think sometimes lessons can steal a person's personality away, because they're trying to do things so technically.
- Music
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing guitar, like, when I was 17 or so, but where I'm from, you just don't hear about people moving to Nashville and making it. It was such a foreign thing to me. I never knew music was an option for me.
- Braves
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.
- Myself
- |
- Nov 07, 2020