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.

Ryan Key

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

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

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...

Alexandra Picavet

I think it's more the mystery that everyone is intrigued by the fact that here's this plane that crashed more than 63 years ago, and there's still somebody up there.

Steve Adlard

He should have just eased it home instead of crashing it home.

Holly Baldwin

It is so awesome. I was pissed because I didn't think I was going to crash - and then I kept crashing.

Anja Paerson

I crossed my skis really bad. I was waiting for the crash ... for my head to hit the snow.

James Norton

I crashed my bicycle on the way to my first date with my ex-girlfriend and was cautioned by the police.

Ralph Phillips

He taught me everything. Not only to fly a plane but how to crash a plane if you had to.

Beau Bridges

He has a real sense of fun and was teasing me off the bat. I think he called me 'Sure Shot Bob.' When I managed to wade through two and a half pages of virtual monologue on the first take without any crash and burn, he was teasing me.

Ernie Hartlieb

Intensity is the key. They're going to come out hitting. We've got to match their hitting. There are going to be some ugly goals around the net. That's how we have to score ? crashing the net.

Suzanne Shaw

I like to lose weight sensibly and not go on crash diets. I've tried Atkins, but it didn't work for me - so far the only one that has is the wheat-free diet.

Tom Scholz

I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

Richard Rodney Bennett

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

Jools Holland

If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you're limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra.

Janelle Monae

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

Sid Vicious

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

Dave Davies

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

James Miller

...power to fill her life, with happiness, to wake her heart's chords to touch her soul's depths.

Jeff Tweedy

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

Kendra Wilkinson

I would get my laugh insured! Because my laugh is very important: it's a million dollar laugh, so if my vocal chords make my laugh any different, then I'm going to have to get insured.