Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Mangold

John always said whoever played him, 'make sure they hold the guitar like they own it, that they don't hold it like it's a baby,'

Brad Tolinski

I think it literally might not have occurred to women to pick up a guitar and play.

Steve Stevens

Guitar World ... orchestrates the growls and snarls that come off his guitar much the same way that Bernstein conducts the Philharmonic.

Ryan Key

I think it's time for a face-melting guitar solo.

Robert Cray

She was just another notch on my guitar.

Trini Lopez

I started my career in Dallas, yes. I was born and raised in Dallas. I started my career there when I was very young. My guitar was bigger than I was. That's how young I was.

Woody Guthrie

Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.

Will Ferrell

I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make this whole new sound that's going to shock the world. Unfortunately, the masses didn't receive it.

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.

David Pierce

Kelsey plays the piano, and he's also a tremendous singer. I'm classically trained, and he's more of a jazz improvisatory pianist. So, we don't usually sit down and play together.

Ethan Iverson

I think the jazz musicians have had less problems than people who feel jazz should be just one thing.

Claude Nobs

I was working in the local tourist office and I said to the manager, 'We should do something to make Montreux known in America. Let's do a jazz festival!

John Reynolds

I do a lot (of business) with local jazz players.

Robert Quine

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

Van Morrison

That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.

Van Morrison

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

Van Morrison

I just can't stand it [ jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.

Van Morrison

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

Ryan Reynolds

When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Ronald Reagan

The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him.

Peter Plagens

I like touch. I like to make twists and turns -- but I don't want (my paintings) to be too elegant.

Chuck Viane

Immediately after Halloween, whatever it is, people's mind-set turns to movies,

Charlotte Evans

It's doing very well. But, it's the first year, and we'll just have to wait and see how everything turns out.

Meg Mallon

It turns out I've had this for a very long time,

Nikki Sixx

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

Nicole Polizzi

What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand