Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Price

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

Chord Overstreet

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

Chick Corea

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

Dave Edmunds

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

Dave Barry

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

Buddy Guy

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

Carlos Santana

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

Carlos Santana

If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.

Carlos Santana

I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.

Charley Pride

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

Billy Gibbons

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

David Duchovny

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

Dee Dee Ramone

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

Deb Caletti

I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.

Dick Dale

I've got holes in my guitar.

Chad Smith

There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.

Billy Unger

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

Beth Orton

I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.

Beth Orton

I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

Diana Wynne Jones

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.

Brian Eno

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.

Brian Eno

You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.

Bob Dylan

Rumble is the best instrumental ever.

Bob Dylan

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

Bob Dylan

All I've got is a red guitar, three chords and the truth.

Billy Bush

Suffice to say that the TG2, Germ pre and EQ, and TG1 are there anytime I track drums, TG2 for guitars and the LTD-1 is there whenever I do vocals!

Billy Corgan

Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.

Billy Corgan

It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.

Bruce Dickinson

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

Brie Larson

Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.

Bruce Springsteen

I want a thousand guitars . . .

Bruce Springsteen

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.

Brian Setzer

I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.