Top 1200 Guitar Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I went to school to learn guitar, solfeggio, and harmony. I wanted to know more about music, how it works. I wanted to take voice lessons, too, and that's when I discovered what I could do with my voice. At the beginning, I thought I would do classical and pop, but then I learned that I really liked the classical music.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

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

There was a time that I was The Drifter in NXT, and I did not want to break my guitar because that was the only guitar I had.

I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.

People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time.

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

The rhythm of sitar cannot be created with chords of guitar and vice versa as both the instruments have a distinct purpose in music.

This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out.

Led Zeppelin is what made me buy my first electric guitar: the Jimmy Page guitar sound.

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

There is no reason why a guitar player makes the guitar-playing faces. It doesn't help you play guitar. You've not improved your skills. It's because you're up onstage, and the natural inclination is to put on a show. The rock guy faces are just as much of a front or a show as us wearing crazy makeup. It's just a different scale.

My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.

You can't get a guitar player like Dweezil without his commitment to the work that it takes A) to be the musician that he is and B) to the music itself.

I'm a huge fan of Joni Mitchell, and I think her music has inspired me lyrically and guitar-wise.

I'm about a 20-handicapper with a guitar. I can only play three songs on my own album. I did the lyrics, not the music.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!

I wanted a guitar when I was 4 or 5, and I learned how to play guitar by the time I was 6. Just self-taught.

I played all the guitar parts except the guitar solo on 'Beat It.'

I probably spent more time as a kid playing air guitar to Jimmy Page than any other guitar player.

I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.

Chromamatic' is actually about changing the strings on my guitar and tuning my guitar.

Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

For just being a black artist in rock n' roll and be able to step outside and create, and make great music. And just be different. Just a different breed. And that's what I love about Jimi Hendrix's music - the way he plays the guitar is so different. He's just an icon all around.

Argentina is a very interesting culture because unlike Europe and the US, they did not abandon rock and roll music, they did not turn their backs on it. It's an important part of their culture. So guitar music is an important part of their culture. So me being into rock music, I get respect working there, which wasn't happening in Europe or in the US.

I was writing tons of music in my spare time. I might be on location somewhere, and I'd go home and I'd have my guitar and my little keyboard or something and write music. Or if I was at home, on my piano. I've always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.

I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.

Listening to my dad playing guitar along to 'Sleepwalk' by the Shadows was probably the first time I discovered emotion in music.

When you start running out of things to do on a guitar, you have to find other ways of making music with your instrument.

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer.

I got into rock music at thirteen, listening to Van Halen, learned how to play the electric guitar.

I started playing guitar when I was 12, and I started getting into more metal, like Maiden and Metallica... Of course, as I kind of got better and better in the guitar, I was listening to more guitar players, so then I got into, I guess, more of the prog side.

Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

Music's always been in my home. My dad plays guitar, and I grew up listening to cumbia and salsa and boleros.

After Chuck Berry died, it seemed web sites popped up like mushrooms to show where he'd taken the guitar introduction to 'Johnny B. Goode' from to prove that his music was nothing new, that it was only ignorance, or vanity, that led his listeners to think that not only was the music different - they might be, too.

The first guitar I ever owned was a Kay SG copy. That cost like $35. Man, that was a terrible guitar.

It's cool to play the guitar, but to me it's even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and forward, to manipulate it with a turntable. Guitars can't do that themselves.

I've played guitar for years, and wanted to play guitar, but we got halfway through the last one and realized we hadn't used any.

You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the drums... You only notice the guitar when it's not there.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

My dad has been playing guitar basically all his life. He's sort of who got me into rock music.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

A guitar is a guitar. Whether it was made yesterday or 51 years ago, if it's good, it will stand the test of time.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.

I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me, it's like...you know, some dudes like hunting, fishing, going out and playing ball in the backyard with their buddies on a rainy day. I like being out with my buddies playing rock guitar. That's what I love to do.

I love The Edge's guitar style; it is unique. There is an ancient world resonating in his guitar sound.

Music's been a huge passion of mine since I was really young. I started playing guitar when I was thirteen.

I'm so used to knowing what to do with an electric guitar and amplifier, but with an acoustic guitar, it's different, but I still have an amp and a whole bunch of pedals.

Most people can do what I do - they can do guitar solos - but they can't do a good, hard rhythm guitar and be dedicated to it.

I'm Mexican, and we do a lot of singing, and it was my brother's guitar that I'd practice on, and he would say, 'Who's that playing my guitar?'

It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.

I think music comes out of silence... and I have a lot of silent time, without a pesky guitar interrupting my thoughts.

Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.