Top 1200 Classical Guitar Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I started playing guitar by the time I was 9.

When words fail, the guitar speaks.

The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.

I can write songs without a guitar.

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.

I was a guitar player first off.

I am musical. I play guitar.

My training has been in Hindustani classical, and I have done a six-week course in English vocals at Berklee. The holistic learning has helped me a lot.

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

I'll never be the best guitar player.

I played piano, flute, and guitar.

I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical program, so we did Chekov and Moliere and a lot of Shakespeare.

There's certainly no doubt that commercialism has entered classical music to such a degree that almost no one seems to care anymore about the physical and mental health of the performer.

The guitar is the most beautiful of all instruments.

I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

I don't need to speak...I play the guitar!

I studied classical percussion for ten years. At one point I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

'Guitar World' is one of my favorite magazines.

My guitar was a loyal person to me.

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

I sing a bit and play guitar.

I shoulda learned to play the guitar.

I started playing guitar when I was 14.

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable.

I don't recall getting a first guitar.

I play the guitar a little bit.

The music I'm playing now is the music I always imagined myself playing when I was a kid. It's been nice to use my instrument a bit more - play the guitar in a more fun way with riffs and stuff like that - rather than just propping up a whole song with a guitar and my vocals. There's so much more energy in the crowd as well; they've been bouncing around and having fun, and it's nice to feel like you're a part of something in a room rather than just performing for a crowd.

I write songs, I play a guitar and that's it.

I always liked the guitar sound.

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

Tonight I just need my guitar.

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

The guitar can go at a scream. It can yell at you.

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

Bass is for people who can't play guitar

I play the guitar every day.

My first love was the sound of guitar.

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so it's funny to make it as a rock star when we're 40 or whatever.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

Sometimes I'll listen to a little old Van Halen, or some Beatles, Zeppelin stuff, classical music... I like a lot of different things.

Me and guitar music is so entwined.

I'm always happy with a guitar in my hand.

I used to be a very serious pianist, and I was one of the snot-nosed classical ones who was appalled by nightmares of Ethel Merman and trombones blasting in the background and who knows what else.

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.