Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. John

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.

Dr. John

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

Doc Watson

Practice like the Devil.

Dave Grohl

My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.

Colin Greenwood

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

Colin Greenwood

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

Dan Fogelberg

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

Dan Fogelberg

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

David Lynch

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

Dane Cook

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

David Byrne

Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

David Byrne

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

Dave Matthews

I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.

David Lee Roth

They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar.

David Bowie

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly.

Andy Summers

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

Andy Summers

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

Andy Summers

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

Andy Summers

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

James Mangold

John always said whoever played him, 'make sure they hold the guitar like they own it, that they don't hold it like it's a baby,'

I think it literally might not have occurred to women to pick up a guitar and play.

Steve Stevens

Guitar World ... orchestrates the growls and snarls that come off his guitar much the same way that Bernstein conducts the Philharmonic.

Ryan Key

I think it's time for a face-melting guitar solo.

Kim Campbell

Glen loves to get his guitar and sit in with them. He just loves to play, that's what makes him happy.

Drake Bell

I like to play music and sleep. But most of all, I love to work... I don't really play sports, so I like to spend my time playing guitar or piano.

Julian Casablancas

I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a week and was like, 'Check out this song - what do you think?' That would be ideal. I would prefer telling people that I'm just truly talented.

Paul Simon

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

Paul Simon

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

Paul Simon

Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.

B. B. King

I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.

B. B. King

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

B. B. King

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!