Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Figgis

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

Mike Gordon

I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.

Midge Ure

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

Mick Ralphs

Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.

Richard Thompson

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

Ronnie Montrose

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

Ronnie Montrose

I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for.

Ronnie Montrose

I don't recall getting a first guitar.

Ronnie Montrose

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

Rooney Mara

I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't really know how to do, it's terrifying.

Rokia Traore

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

Rokia Traore

I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted to come back to the guitar.

Roger Waters

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

Rod Stewart

Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

Robin Trower

The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do, so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what it is.

Robin Trower

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

Robin Trower

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

Robin Trower

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

Robin Trower

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

Robert Smith

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

Richard Lloyd

Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.

Richard Lloyd

The guitar is like a cuisine and you can't expect people to eat the same thing all the time.

Ritchie Blackmore

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.

Ritchie Blackmore

I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.

Ritchie Blackmore

I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.

Ritchie Blackmore

Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they are all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist.

Ritchie Blackmore

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

Ritchie Blackmore

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

Richard Prince

I wish I had met [Francesca] Woodman forty years ago. It would have been great to live with her for a year. She didn't save anything. She played the camera like a new guitar. She murdered herself out taking pictures...

Trevor Rabin

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

Robin Zander

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it.

Trevor Dunn

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

Tracii Guns

I used a fifties Les Paul custom on most of the stuff. I also used a Strat, a newer Strat. I had a million guitars in there but I used the Strat & the Les Paul in just about everything. There were a lot of different amp choices, I was working with a pro tools plug-in which is like an amplifier stimulator. The possibilities with something like that are just endless.