Top 1200 Lead Guitar Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

The history of lead is a history of neglect. It's a history of decisions on our part not to address the broad implications of what we did to ourselves during the industrial revolution and in the first part of the century when our cities expanded broadly, when we built our housing and we began to depend upon lead as a mainstay of our new industrial culture. We put this stuff in even though we knew it was dangerous, we knew it was going to hurt kids.

'Purple Rain,' the album, is a great guitar record.

I guess I find it easier to talk when I have a guitar in front of me.

Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.

I don't actually personally get off on guitar music.

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

My son plays guitar, and he's been at the Kennedy Center.

I did play every little note on the guitar on that record.

Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh.

I started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12.

A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar!

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.

Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing are the gods of double-guitar axemanship.

Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large.

Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now.

He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such strangely shaped lives? Wouldn't our genetic purpose-to transmit DNA-be served just as well if we lived simple lives, not bothering our heads with a lot of extraneous thoughts, devoted entirely to preserving life and procreating? Did it benefit the genes in any way for us to lead such intricately warped, even bizarre, lives?

I was always looking to be entertained. We lead such full lives and a lot of us don't lead very pleasant lives and don't like what we do... My dad worked his whole life as a salesman and that wasn't what he really wanted to do. He looked forward to two weeks vacation every year and he used to say to me, 'Whatever you do, make sure you do something you really like so you don't just have your vacation to look forward to.' And I love movies.

He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar.

I always call niggas fools for wanting to learn the hard way. When I'm really the fool for tryna teach 'em. When the blinds leading the blind. You can't reach 'em. If niggas ain't as hungry as you then why feed 'em? Niggas ain't tryna be lead then why lead 'em? Having big problems with your dogs, why breed em?

Ziggy played guitar, jamming good with Weird and Gilly.

I did buy an electric guitar while shooting 'Split.'

One of my favorite things to do is play guitar with my dad, who taught me.

If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

I did play every little note on the guitar on that record

I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes

The way I look at it, I'm a songwriter that just happens to play guitar.

I get on my porch with my guitar, look at my trees, and write a song.

Phil Robson is a disturbingly good jazz guitar player!

I was definitely drawn to the mythology of one man, one voice, and one guitar.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

I hate to do anything halfway so I leave the guitar alone.

David Longstreth is one of the great guitar heroes of our generation.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.

He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science leads to God! The bridge between man and the unknown God is not worshipping but it is science, only the science!

I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.

The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.

To me, a day off is sitting at a piano or with a guitar and writing.

I picked up the guitar at 15 because of Taylor Swift.

Let's face it - the electric guitar is way sexier than the acoustic.

You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.

I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar.

I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.

The New York Times and PBS are gatekeepers of a sort. And they perform that role of gatekeeping with a set of rules and aspirations about where they want to lead their viewers and their readers. They value objective facts, and they attempt to transmit a comprehensive view of the world. And they do have values. And they do lead their viewers and their readers to certain conclusions. But it's different than such monopolies as Apple or Google which are dissecting information into these bits and pieces, which they're then transmitting to people. And it's about clicks.

In 2010, I had been playing guitar for 50 years.