Top 410 Guitars Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.
I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am.
I was working in a music store in London, and this particular place happened to be the importers for Rickenbacker guitars into England. So I started seeing these basses coming in.
I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist.
My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn't just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.
I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.
I don't really care what music's made on - I love guitars, but I'm fine with great electronic music.
I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds.
Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.
My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging.
That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.
A couple of my friends had guitars, and I remember messing with them, but I was often intimidated by it. I think I sat down at a piano once when I was really young, but that was it.
Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!'
I saw a band called The Electric Guitars, from Bristol. I described them to Roland, and he just started playing a riff on guitar and said, 'Do they sound like this?' And they did.
I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay.
Hip-hop and country aren't too far different: They got shiny suits and the boots and the guitars with their names on it. I was infatuated with that type of stuff.
I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.
I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.
I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that there should be a really nice Strat around.
I love power ballads and the earnest lack of irony and emotion that exists in '80s music, along with synth guitars, of course.
My basic setup is my Ibanez Fireman guitars and for pedals, the TC Electronic MojoMojo is the mainstay of my board, along with a Catalinbread Calissto Chorus.
I've owned about 2,000 guitars through the years because I've traded a lot and given away and sold some stuff.
I have no talent when it comes to pianos or guitars or any of that, even karaoke. For karaoke, I have to be wasted to get up there and sing.
Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.
I'm quite happy for my voice to be pushed up, whereas in the past I wanted it buried with the guitars, or part of the band, not like I was thinking of myself as 'the singer'.
I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.
Honestly, I'd rather do regular interviews. It's more interesting to talk about whatever... anything other than guitars. I'm not into being a tech-head.
Horns really make a good band. They always create excitement when it's needed. They give the music a broader spread. It doesn't have to be all guitars and keyboards all the time.
My first proper 'Here's your guitar, Joseph' was a 1981 Chiquita, one of those Erlewine travel guitars. And it was good for a four-year-old because it was small.
I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.
With its breezy guitars and sweet backing vocals, 'Norway' blows away any semblance of Beach House's previously bleak approach to pop.
The angels had guitars before they had wings.
As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.
The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.
I don't like to do any editing on guitars. I think the more editing you do, it just takes away from the feel of the performance.
Speaking in a common tongue, speaking through guitars and drums.
I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.
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.
Some people collect this or that. I'm a musician; I collect guitars.
Almost 15 with music, we have so many guitars that we developed over the years. The latest one is 'The Majesty' guitar, which I'm really proud of.
The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.
Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.
Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.
Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.
Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.
Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.
I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the side hairdos are not metal no matter what distortion pedal they have for their guitars.
When you put the guitars over the 808, it just makes it grittier and grimier. It's just different.
We didn't leave home until we graduated high school, but when we did, we genuinely left. We went out into the world with 50 bucks, backpacks, and acoustic guitars.
It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever - I consider that as conceptual.
Certainly that's what I like in a lot of the music that I listen to, kind of a sexual energy. Guitars and rock get it across best for me.
I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.
I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.
The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.
First guitars tend to be like first loves: ill-chosen, unsuitable, short-lived and unforgettable.
