Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charley Pride

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

Bill Mumy

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

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.

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.

Darin Strauss

I'm no fan of jam bands. You can take your Gov't Mule, your Phish, your Rusted Root. But Derek Trucks is a special musician - perhaps the greatest slide guitarist who ever lived.

Brian Jones

It's wet from all the guitar players crying.

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.

Dave Mason

We'll see how the guitar players of the world take to it

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.

Ike Turner

I put together one song, Bonnie Raitt put together a song. Ah, what's his name, the other guitar player? Gatemouth Brown! Yeah, he did a side on Joe Louis Walker.

Jack Johnson

I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month.

Glenn Frey

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

I'm very selective about whose guitars I'll see.

I know how a guitar player likes a guitar to feel and to sound. Having the right tone is everything.

John Corbett

(But) I think I'm a better singer and guitar player than actor.

Jeff Cook

But I might be partial because I'm a guitar player.

Neil Diamond

But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .

John Scofield

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

John Sebastian

I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay.

Tom Curren

I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.

Slash

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

Slash

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Slash

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

Slash

Guitars are like women. You'll never get them totally right.

Siouxsie Sioux

People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.

Meredith Brooks

Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.

Theodore Bikel

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

The Edge

A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.

Michelle Branch

When people ask me if I have a boyfriend, I tell them it's my guitar because, really, it's what takes up all my time.

Michael Storm

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

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.