Quotes about guitar
guitar playing-guitar contests
Playing guitar is not a beauty contest. Ernie Isley
guitar lovely littles
I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up. Graham Coxon
guitar texas mexican
Its just something Ive always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart. Guy Clark
guitar firsts nylon
All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it. Guy Clark
guitar firsts said
The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work. George Benson
guitar notes classical-guitar
I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar. Fred Frith
guitar waiting singing
I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy. Eric Clapton
guitar grandparent buying
The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it. Eric Clapton
guitarist
I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist. Eric Clapton
guitar fetch faces
I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine. Gary Oldman
guitar wonderful instruments
The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few. Franz Schubert
guitar records strings
My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records. Chris Isaak
guitar speak failing
When words fail, the guitar speaks. George Szell
guitar should-have laughing
After the Ed Sullivan Show, Feb. 9, 1964, at approx. 8:04pm [laughs], after that moment every album, every guitar, evey set of drums that was ever sold ... 10% should have gone right into their pocket! George Thorogood
guitar trying want
Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey... it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living. Gene Simmons
guitar use guts
I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut. Garth Brooks
guitar trying hey
I would try to pick the guitar up sometimes, like, "Hey, remember me?" It was like reintroducing yourself to someone who's got a grudge. Feist
guitar perfection simplicity
You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting too caught up in little tweezers of perfection. Feist
guitar play rocks
I don't know what it would be like to actually play guitar. I've toured with a lot of comedians and it's never been like it is for a rock band. Eugene Mirman
guitar relax locks
Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing. Cat Power
guitar light looks
Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then, you get a big ovation while the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around. Frank Zappa
guitar ideas good-times
The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time. Frank Zappa
guitar play shut-up
Shut Up and Play your Guitar. Frank Zappa
guitar ideas earth
Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why I like it . . . The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that’s my idea of a good time. Frank Zappa
guitar sound sheer
I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier. James Hetfield
guitar feelings standing
Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar. James Hetfield
guitar media play
Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage. Kristin Hersh
guitar cheesy keyboards
That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar. Julian Casablancas
guitar helping electric
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start. Keith Richards
guitar hands play
I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues-the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again. Keith Richards
guitar hands long
I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands. Keith Richards
guitar easy strings
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole Keith Richards
guitar plays swings
He plays the guitar like he swings the bat. He's smooth. Rondell White