Top 1200 Playing Guitar Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Ironically, I must admit that I have an easier time (myself) playing games that are really simple and non-realistic - like the games I grew up with in the 80's - I tend to get lost and confused when the games get too complex! But I enjoy watching people who are good at playing games. I really enjoy playing games like Guitar Hero, where you feel like you're a great musician even if you're not.

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

Back when I was in high school, I came out onstage with my guitar and had four guys playing behind me. We were just playing a dance, but I was standing in front of an audience rocking out. I'm still rocking out like when I was a kid. I haven't changed.

All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

I worked with George Harrison - who was the reason I started playing guitar.

All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

When I first started playing, I definitely had a younger scum-punk crowd, but as my music developed more and after I started playing electric guitar - you'd think it would be opposite - but a lot of people were like, "You've changed." And I have more of an older audience now.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

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

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.

Anytime you go to see a band with a guitar player, there's always a fear of guitar overkill! That's a funny question. If you went to a Taylor Swift concert or a Jay-Z show, people would think, 'Oh, my God, I hope I don't get guitar overkill.' People come to our show for guitar, and there can never be enough.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

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

There's more to playing the guitar than being able to split your legs.

I've been playing electric guitar since I was 11, and I love the blues.

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.

The Majesty guitar symbolizes the very reason why I am so proud to be a Music Man artist. I had the idea for this guitar a couple of years ago but it is because of their innovative spirit and dedication to the art of guitar building that it is now a reality. I am so grateful that I am able to collaborate with the best guitar company on the planet and so incredibly proud that together we have created what is to me, the perfect musical instrument for guitar players. I really hope you get a chance to play one and am confident that you will feel the same!

I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.

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

Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.

I feel like I'm playing the washboard more than the guitar.

A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes

I started playing the guitar when we started filming the pilot to 'Lost in Space,' which was way back in December of 1964, and there's a little bit in the pilot that was used in the first season where Will Robinson is sitting around some bad foam rubber rock playing and singing 'Greensleeves.'

I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really into how the pickups work. And winding and de-winding Telecaster pickups. And then building Telecasters. And I became more fascinated with making them than I was with actually playing them. So it's a slippery slope.

When I produce someone's record I have to remember it's their record..no matter what I bring to it..er, sometimes that's not too easy:) It is a responsibility made less easy by people I work with encouraging me to play guitar on their record...A soon as I start playing guitar on someone's record it inevitably starts to sound like me...not always a good thing.

I love playing acoustic guitar because I strum with my hands to feel more connected.

Not playing guitar has been the hardest thing about having ALS.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.

I don't seek out knowledge when it comes to guitar playing; I like to let it happen naturally.

Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.

My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.

My first guitar was like a campfire guitar. And it was left at a house that my family had moved into... and the guitar was at the house. It was all strung up. It's normally something that would be beyond a bit of rubbish.

My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall, and the orchestra was playing. When the show started, the spotlight was sharp on this one man (Andres Segovia) and he had sombrero on and his guitar propped up like this and, oh man ... he was a master ! - I really heard it. That one guitar sounded like a whole orchestra to me.

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

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

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. One of my earliest memories is him kind of forcing a guitar on all my brothers and me. You know, "You have to practice three hours a day!" I hated guitar at the time. I kind of picked up trumpet to spite him.

When I first started playing guitar, so many people told me I couldn't do this or couldn't do that. But I kept at it and ignored that.

I feel some allegiance to pushing electric-guitar music into a different realm, somewhere that isn't retrospective. There's a lot of guitar bands that are a tribute to the 1970s or the Nineties. I want to experiment with guitar music more.

Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

My dad used to tour playing guitar with New Edition.

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

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

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

I'm a very tough critic of my guitar-playing. Sometimes I don't even want to do it anymore.

Basically, I try to treat the electric guitar like an acoustic guitar. What you have to do is attack the instrument and know that your feelings aren't controlled by the controls of your guitar.

As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.

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

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

I'm a chameleon when it comes to guitar playing and like to stretch out into different territories.

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

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

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.

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

As my guitar playing dwindled, something else in my music got better.

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.