Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jeff Beck

I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there.

Jeff Beck

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

Jeff Beck

I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.

Jeff Buckley

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

George Benson

The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.

Fred Frith

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.

Eric Clapton

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.

John Corbett

(But) I think I'm a better singer and guitar player than actor.

Jeff Cook

But I might be partial because I'm a guitar player.

Glenn Frey

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

Jack Johnson

I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month.

B. B. King

I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.

B. B. King

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

B. B. King

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!

James Hetfield

I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.

James Hetfield

Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

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.

Frank Zappa

Shut Up and Play your Guitar.

Frank Zappa

Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why I like it . . . The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that’s my idea of a good time.

Elton John

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

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,'

Ryan Key

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

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.

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.