Top 1200 Guitar Solos Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style.

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

I play guitar, so that's kind of my outlet, but its just something I want to keep for myself.

Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.

I got into the guitar at a young age, and it's a big part of what I like to do during my down time.

I use the volume control on my guitar, both for dynamics and as a manual noise gate.

When I have downtime, music is a big part of my life. Not so much singing, but I play the guitar.

I'm still like an excited kid playing guitar in front of the bedroom mirror.

I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.

My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.

Something people might not know about me is, I like playing the guitar.

I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.

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

The Armstrong record that I personally like the most, is a recording of a song by Harold Arlen called, "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues" . Most of Armstrong's solos tended to stick pretty close to the melody. But for some reason, it's like he let go of the tether and suddenly he's playing this beautiful high, almost abstract line that's floating above the beat. I compare it to the way that a 19th century operatic tenor might have sang an Aria because he's just completely let loose of the background and he's making this magic sort of flying above the staff.

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good.

I'm often a firm believer in "the simpler the better" approach and it's evident in my guitar setup.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

I forget that I can play guitar and that I can perform very well. It's like having an alternative life.

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

All my best girlfriends play guitar now, which is kind of a funny world to live in.

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living

A guitar is more than just a sound box... it is part of your soul.

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

It is really hard to write something high-energy and upbeat on acoustic guitar.

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.

I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.

I'd rather be known as a songwriter than a guitarist, although I love to play the guitar.

I never saw myself as the classic singer/songwriter who sticks to his guitar.

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana!

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

Flannel shirts, denim, Converse, a guitar, messy hair? That's literally me.

I think I always wished I could play guitar as well as Jimi Hendrix.

My first guitar was an Ibanez semi-hollowbody, I think it was called the Artist, from the early '80s.

My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks.

It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.

The Hamsters really kick ass - Slim is one of your greatest guitar players

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn't read a note.

Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.

Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar.

If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.

When you pick up a guitar, you don't put down your First Amendment rights.

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

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel and you're hearing. It's like an ongoing conversation. You really had to listen to this guy. Cause he could play the strangest tempos, and they could be very in-between tempos on some of those compositions. You really had to listen to his arrangements and the way he would play them. On his solos, you'd really have to listen good in there. You'd have to concentrate on what you were doing as well.

Whether I'm making my own record, or playing a guitar part, I want what I do to have an impact.

I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at.

In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"--my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god.

The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings.

The only way you can get Scotty Moore's tone is with a big hollowbody guitar.