Guitar Quotes - Page 19

• In any moment, I guess we could whip out a guitar and start playing old school.

  Kyle Gass

  School, Moments, Whips

  Source: www.avclub.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

  Carlos Santana

  Dream, Hero, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression.

  Robby Krieger

  Kings, Expression, Berries

  47 Copy quote

• Johnny Depp already seen how alcohol and drugs can get in the way of a career. And you have to remember one thing: Johnny was a guitar player and a rock-and-roller way before he was an actor. When he came to Los Angeles, he came with his band.

  Alice Cooper

  Player, Rocks, Careers

  "Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp And Friends Write A Musical Toast To Decadence". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

  Jay Kay

  Song, Scotland, Voice

  9 Copy quote

• Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Song, Driven, Aggressive

  6 Copy quote

• There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Two, Kind

  18 Copy quote

• The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music itself. But the guitar is the vehicle I use. It's how I express myself. As for the emotional side, music takes up where language leaves off. To try and verbalize what music says, emotionally and spiritually, is futile. Let me put it this way, Louis Armstrong once said if you've got to ask, you'll never know.

  Charlie Byrd

  Music, Mean, Emotional

  9 Copy quote

• If I want to be moved by the track, I don't want it to be sequenced, I want it to be somebody playing the guitar or piano or a horn arrangement where you can hear the breath. You can almost smell the studio while listening to the music. For me, that's what moves me emotionally, that's what I came from. I think that's always going to work best for me.

  Eric Benet

  Moving, Thinking, Piano

  "Eric Benet Interview: New Album, Staying Authentic, Passion for R&B, Potential Project with Tamia". Youknowigotsoul.com Interview, youknowigotsoul.com. October 5, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I kind of just want to get to know people and I have a genuine interest in people that listen to my music. I've just always felt like that. I think it's from the days of playing guitar to a few people and being very conversational and very intimate and I've always wanted to keep that vibe.

  Ellie Goulding

  Thinking, People, Want

  17 Copy quote

• I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble; I thought of it as that. But I was playing guitar and ukulele when I was in second grade.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Ukulele, Scribbles, Young

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Typewriters, Tools, Duos

  4 Copy quote

• As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down.

  Ted Leo

  Style, Jazz, Kind

  "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.

  Ben E. King

  Song, Writing, Play

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm amazed that I can sit down, put a guitar in my hands and start playing kind of free style, and it will be four hours later and it will feel like it's been five minutes. I think that adds depth to your being, when something in your life can do that for you. Everybody should try to find something in their life that can do that for them. People find really elaborate self-destructive ways of killing time on this planet. That's why they take drugs or drink, trying to alter their state of being. If you can find something that doesn't destroy you, but deepens your character, you're really lucky.

  John Rzeznik

  Character, Thinking, Self

  18 Copy quote

• When I sit down and play the guitar, Im 20 years old again.

  J.J. Cale

  Years, Play, Down And

  13 Copy quote

• About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

  Freddie Mercury

  Years, Three, Chords

  "Queen on Fire - Live at the Bowl". Live album by Queen (Freddie Mercury's intro to the song "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"), October 25, 2004.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• The disparity between being a 10-year-old boy playing air guitar, wishing I was a rock star, and the reality of the whole thing is insane.  A girl will throw her bra onstage, and I say to myself, if I was the guy that pumped your gas today, would you throw your bra at me?

  John Rzeznik

  Girl, Stars, Boys

  7 Copy quote

• Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

  Billy Corgan

  Rocks, Play, Guy

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

  J.J. Cale

  Player, Littles, Dinner

  "JJ Cale, songwriter behind Cocaine and After Midnight, dies aged 74" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

  Edie Brickell

  Beautiful, Song, Dirty

  6 Copy quote

• If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

  Cliff Richard

  Regret, Play, May

  8 Copy quote

• I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.

  B. B. King

  Believe, Heart, Player

  8 Copy quote

• Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Son, Cds, Two

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard.

  Morton Feldman

  Order, Play, Littles

  8 Copy quote