Guitar Quotes

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.
Jimi Hendrix

Hate, Give, Sometimes

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
Jimi Hendrix

Love, Time, Sacrifice

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
Jimi Hendrix

Hate, Put, Around

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Keith Richards

Music, Rock, Point

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.
Megan Fox

Nice, Strange, Serious

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
Joan Jett

I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
Ted Nugent

Life, Attitude, Rock

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
Stevie Nicks

Birthday, Mom, Dad

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.
Keith Richards

Mean, Give, Bored

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.
Jimmy Page

Character, Person, Different

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
Andres Segovia

Music, Poetry, Forward

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.
Sting

Life, Friend, Him

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
Paul McCartney

Down, Happen, Trying

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.
Elliott Smith

Play, Guy, Sensitive

I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.
Ted Nugent

Great, Play, Off

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
Paul McCartney

Money, Anger, Happen

I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.
James Hetfield

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
Andres Segovia

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
Dolly Parton

Writing, Old, Serious

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
Paul McCartney

Time, Fool, Used

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!
Zakk Wylde

Time, Play, Tell

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.
Keith Richards

Thinking, Play, Start

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Playing, Approach, Fragile

Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
Ted Nugent

Energy, Year, Player

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.
Jeff Cooper

Makes, Musician, Armed

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
Richard Thompson

Alone, Stand, Bravery

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
Syd Barrett

Time, Used, Felt

I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail.
Ted Nugent

Gun, Guy, Dirty

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
Ted Nugent

Hand, Weapon, Finer

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.
Cat Stevens

Love, Words, Play

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