Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimi Hendrix

Let me live my life the way I want to.

John McLaughlin

Absolutely, all guitars are different. You can go into a store and grab five guitars, all the same model, and even though they look identical they're not identical. They play differently, they feel a bit different and they sound slightly different.

Benjamin Booker

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.

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.

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

Harry Dean Stanton

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

Hal Sparks

Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.

Gerard Butler

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

Herbie Mann

I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

Jill Sobule

My first instrument was the drums. Not quite sure why I quit and changed to guitar, but I'm sure my parents might have convinced me that the guitar was way better.

Ernie Isley

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

Ernie Isley

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

Cat Power

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.

Jake Shimabukuro

I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.

Jam Master Jay

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

Jam Master Jay

I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.

Jackie DeShannon

Most of the time I sit down with my guitar or at the piano, and I play for awhile until I get a new riff or groove that I like a lot. Then I'll concentrate on building around that line of thought by adding words and textures. At first I'm only trying to please myself, and hopefully what I like will appeal to others.

Jack White

You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock and roll you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues.

Elton John

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

Jeff Buckley

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

Jensen Ackles

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

Jesse Metcalfe

I sing a bit and play guitar.

Jesse Plemons

I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.

Gary Snyder

Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split them up into different groups. And then, when we went out on tour and they [the record companies] would see us all up there together - we had five, six guitars playing at one time, not including the bass! -, they said: "Wait a minute, that's just one whole group, selling different names!" But it wasn't - we had enough people in the group that each member would have a section to be another group. So now we're finally starting to get them to understand that.

Gary Burton

I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

Gary Allan

We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.

Frank Zappa

My guitar wants to kill your mama.

Frank Zappa

If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

Frank Zappa

Elmore James only knew one lick, but you had the feeling that he meant it.

Jessie J

I can play the air guitar really, really well.

Jemaine Clement

I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar.

Jeff Ament

This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model.