Top 1200 Guitar Solos Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

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

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've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.

I started playing guitar because of instrumental guitar music.

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

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.

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 should always be some sort of conclusion or climax to your solos.

Your solos should be as interesting as any other part of the song.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

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

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 don't mind Ed Sheeran, but I wouldn't want to be compared to a guy that builds his song around a guitar, since we do not have a guitar in our band.

I'm a big fan of other guitar players, Duane Allman and tons of them, but I don't really love totally guitar-specific albums.

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

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.

In my own musical existence I don't feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician. Playing in a group, I'm tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That's just me getting older. I'm not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.

I've never been a huge fan of drum solos.

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.

I tend to like the traditional sound: three-part harmonies, guitar, and piano. I mean, a well-played guitar is a joy forever... or something.

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

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

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?'

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

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

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

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

From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.

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

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

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.

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

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

I'm not a 'practicing' musician anymore. I played bass and guitar. I still pick up a guitar around the house every once in awhile.

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.

My favorite solos are all very melodic. Those are the ones that are the most memorable.

We've got an electric organ, a sax, drums, guitar and bass guitar. We sound less like the Beatles than most of the groups.

I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.

My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.

I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.

I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

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

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

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.

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.

Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.

I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister's friend went on a semester abroad, and she left the guitar at our house for nine months.

I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with

Being in a band with three guitar players, one thing you need to do is learn to make each guitar voice sound separate and identifiable.

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.

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.

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.

When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to !

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't see us getting into, like, long solos.

I don't know if, in a previous life, I was, like, the embodiment of a guitar, because any time someone plays a guitar with the licks, I just resonate to it.

As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.

Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.