Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andres Segovia

I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.

Andres Segovia

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

Andres Segovia

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

Andres Segovia

The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose melancholic voice awakes in our soul exquisite reveries.

Chuck Berry

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

Geddy Lee

The first song that made me interested in music was 'Oh, Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison. It was the guitar intro, that riff, that I really liked and made me listen in a different way.

David Lynch

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

Ryan Key

On this album, we took the opportunity to show people that hey, we like to make real music. We're not just plugging in our guitars and singing the catchiest melody to sell records.

Pretty much we all write together. The guitar player comes up with a melody on the computer. We all throw in stuff and write our own parts.

For guitar fans, they won't be disappointed at all.

As soon as I saw the guitar and I played it, I knew.

Robby Benson

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

Brownie McGhee

I started a guitar school. It was called Home of the Blues, on 125th Street in New York. I did that for five, six years and had a lot of students.

Marc Ribot

I've been using kind of a traditional metal guitar sound, a traditional hard-rock and metal guitar sound. That's what the trio thing is about.

Garrett Hedlund

When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.

Kirk Hammett

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

Kirk Hammett

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.

Kirk Hammett

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

Kirk Hammett

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

Kevin Eubanks

In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.

Kathleen Hanna

I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.

Kaki King

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

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.

James Hetfield

I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.

James Hetfield

Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

Juanes

I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

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.

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.

Matt Groening

If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.