Top 410 Guitars Quotes & Sayings

You know, I write songs, I repair guitars.

It is fun to smash guitars.

I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

I'm full of dust and guitars.

Amplification of guitars revolutionized the popular music scene. Youngsters look for quick fame and big money with amplified guitars and working with rock groups.

Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.

Whenever I record more than two or three layers, it starts to get cluttered up, and you can't hear the cut of the guitars as good. It's hard to get four guitars to hit at exactly the same time and keep the attack tight.

I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars.

I smash guitars because I like them.

I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

I've always loved Ibanez guitars, and in particular 7 strings.

I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

I don't collect the way other people do. Some people collect rare guitars, like, 'I have a '54 Strat worth $50,000.' And I don't collect the way Nash does. Nash has Duane Allman's guitar and Johnny Cash's guitar. I bought guitars because they sounded good. I played them, they sounded unbelievably good, and I couldn't resist.

Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.

I'm a kooky collector and own a couple of hundred guitars.

Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.

My first rock band was called Mike and the Majestics. I was about twelve, and my older sister Kathy was the manager. There were three of us: me and a friend on guitars and a drummer. We were young, but we played for a lot of fraternity parties, plugging both guitars and a microphone into one little amplifier.

There are no electric guitars. 'Hunchback' has arias; it's operatic.

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.

Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately.

There are guitars everywhere around all of our houses. Pianos. Guitars. It's kind of just in our blood. It's in our nature.

Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

When we first started, in the early Eighties, we had some crappy guitars - Japanese knockoffs that wouldn't hold standard tuning. Later, we'd shove drumsticks or screwdrivers under strings to scheme new noises, sure. But initially, open tuning was a technique used to make our cheap guitars sound better. It wasn't academic or conceptual.

The problem is that once I start on a song and get a rough idea of where I might go with an arrangement, I try dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different things on a song. The bass, the backing guitars, the lead guitars, the keyboards. It's a long process. It's like 100 steps forward and 99 steps back.

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock ’n’ roll. But the guitars made sounds guitars didn’t always make. Symphonic sounds. Sacred sounds. The music dug in so deep you didn’t hear it so much as feel it, reminding me of a dream I used to have when I was a kid, where I would be standing on a street corner, I would jump into the air, flap my arms, and soar up into the sky. That’s the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight.

I don't really collect guitars.

I don't really collect guitars like some musicians do.

Really young kids are into guitars.

I have too many options when it comes to guitars.

I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.

I probably own 100 guitars and all of them are electric.

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

I can't stand loud guitars that make me deaf.

All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels.

If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert

I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

I collect as many acoustic guitars as I need for a specific purpose. Acoustic guitars are really just tools for me.

I love guitars, and guitars love me, but sometimes they need new homes where they can live to rock another day.

I have problems with guitars, I hammer away at it sometimes and I also do little intimate picks, I'm always looking at new guitars and little extra tweaks and stuff, I like to mix it up a bit.

You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

I've always loved big riffs and chunky guitars.

I like The Smiths as well. They took a cue from The Buzzcocks. They have jangly guitars instead of distorted guitars. All the Manchester bands have a character about them. The Stone Roses and The Smiths and all that. Even if you don't like them, they have a certain original sound.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

There's just no stopping those girls with guitars.

When it came to rock, I was always drawn to guitars.

I live, breathe, and sleep guitars.

If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable.

I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.

Absolutely, all guitars are different. You can go into a store and grab five guitars, all the same model, and even though they look identical they're not identical. They play differently, they feel a bit different and they sound slightly different.

I'm not a guitar collector. I own some guitars because I play.

I want a thousand guitars . . .

If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.