Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Handler

I'm not very good at the accordion. If I played guitar, I wouldn't be on anyone's album. But because I play the accordion and no one else does, I end up doing strange things.

Dan Auerbach

Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

Arlo Guthrie

It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar.

Brad Paisley

I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests.

Dave Mason

We'll see how the guitar players of the world take to it

Ace Frehley

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

Ace Frehley

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

Ace Frehley

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

Ace Frehley

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

Angus Young

I just go where the guitar takes me.

Adrian Belew

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

Adrian Belew

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

Mike Evans

People listen to me because I can put together stories and rhymes. I'm no guitarist like Slash.

I see more women playing guitars on Nickelodeon, which is probably more influential.

Ryan Key

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

Alexander Ludwig

My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.

Alexa Chung

I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can.

Dr. John

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.

Dr. John

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

Doc Watson

Practice like the Devil.

Andrew Wyatt

There are other tracks that are more reliant upon the beat. Like nobody's going to sit there and play "Harlem Shake" on the guitar!

Andres Segovia

I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.

Andres Segovia

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

Andres Segovia

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

Andres Segovia

The guitar is the most unpredictable and least reliable musical instrument in existence...and also the sweetest, the warmest, the most delicate, whose melancholic voice awakes in our soul exquisite reveries.

Chuck Berry

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

Donald Fagen

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

Cynthia Lennon

I didn't marry a Beatle, I married a broke student who played the guitar and ponced all my grant money off me for fags.

Dustin Clare

I'm singing and dancing and playing guitar. I really enjoy pushing myself into different aspects. I'm not going to do this for the rest of my life, but I want to keep challenging myself. And if I'm fearful of something I definitely want to step into it and see how good or bad I am at it.

Alvin Lee

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

Alvin Lee

I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.

Andy Summers

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

Andy Summers

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.