Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Young

Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.

Neil Young

If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.

Neil Young

Link Wray... He was the beginning of Grunge, way before anybody you know.

Niccolo Paganini

I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels.

Patti Smith

I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic.

Patti Smith

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

Martin Gore

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

Nick Offerman

I always call myself a "student" of the guitar.

Matt Cameron

Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

M. Ward

I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that. I was interested in the side of heavy metal that had interesting guitar ideas, but that was a very short-lived thing.

M. Ward

It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

Mac Miller

I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.

Lyle Lovett

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living

Lyle Lovett

You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.

Lucinda Williams

When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen.

Liz Phair

I'd like to do a tour with a bunch of people where it's just them and their guitars. It would be like Lilith Fair - only everyone plays alone, and it would be competitive.

Mark Knopfler

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

Mark Knopfler

I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.

Mark Knopfler

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

Mark Knopfler

I shoulda learned to play the guitar.

Miyavi

It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana!

Kip Winger

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.

Patrick Rothfuss

Performance and music are inexorably tied together. And hell, I'll watch Brittany's Toxic music video all day. But there's a difference between that and listening to Leo Kottke play guitar. One is entertainment. The other is Music.

Imogen Heap

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

Hunter Hayes

Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.' He gave me a guitar for my sixth birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world.

J Mascis

It seemed so wimpy at first when I started to play [guitar]. So I started playing loud with lots of effects just to try to mimic the dynamic [of the drums]. Drums seemed a lot more expressive. [I was] Trying to emulate the feeling of playing the drums on the guitar - I guess that's why I played it so loud.

J Mascis

I have limited interests. I really like all sorts of gear. Guitar gear. Recording gear. Stuff like that. I like music, you know.

Julian Casablancas

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

Keith Richards

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

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

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 is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole

Michael Imperioli

I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.