Guitar Quotes

If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

We got our start at this little club back in Nashville at this place called the Fiddle and Steel Guitar Bar on Mondays and Tuesdays. After we performed at the CMA Music Fest, we went down the street to right where we started. Those people were freaked out! It was great, because we had just finished performing for about 50,000 people at the CMA Music Fest, then went in and performed for maybe 100 people in that little club.

For a long, long time I felt music was a trick for me. Because I had been playing guitar at such an early age, it felt like a magic trick -- I didn't really have a deep-seated appreciation for it. And I went through a period where I think I came very close to God taking it away from me. Fortunately, I got through it and suddenly went 'Oh my God, this is an amazing thing.' Music is a phenomenal thing and I saw it as a blessing and not as a trick anymore, and as soon as I recognized it for that, everything started coming together.

[Jones was accompanied by Phoenix on guitar as she sang] Home of the Blues. ... Guess Things Happen That Way.

When Nolan gets on the mandolin and Eric gets on the slide guitar, the sound changes. We have a lot of neat textures.

My first guitar came from Sears & Roebuck and I believe it was $3.95.

'Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-based. The record that we're doing right now is really guitar-based. I feel like finally I get to write some parts that I'll be excited to play on tour for this record.

Just because it's a guitar, doesn't mean it's rock. There should be more live influence. That doesn't mean making it more rock influence, it means making it more live.

He just had rotator cuff surgery, so he's just starting to be able to pick up his guitar and play it aggressively. He should have had [the operation] six months ago. It was an injury he sustained in a car accident. And then on top of that, all the playing we do and how we do it made matters worse. We're sort of the Dillinger Insurance Plan for the moment.

I love the guitar playing of a lot of folks, but Larry Sparks, he was my model ­ he and Del McCoury.

Then at high school I got an electric guitar and a book with some photos of Eddie Van Halen in it and my grades went downhill.

It's a lot of fun, great guitar work, and we have an excellent dynamic. It's pretty amazing to think that two guys like Randy and I have been playing together six nights a week up and down the coast of Sarasota for 20 years. It's kind of scary -- I can call out a song, and it's what he's already thinking about.

As a guitar player, he was exemplary, ... So many musicians talked about how they wanted the George Harrison sound. The group the Byrds, in America, listened to Harrison and said, 'I want to be like that.' So many guitar players today emulate Harrison's guitar playing. You listen to his playing in the '60s, he doesn't sound out of date at all. It is as contemporary today as it was then.

He has great tone. For some reason, 99 out of 100 guitar players have bad tone. But with Pete, the tone was perfect. It just fit.

I love playing the guitar.

When I grow up, I want to be an artist, a person who sews things and a guitar player. I hope I am famous someday.

I'm going to practice my guitar every day.

The guitar I now have is permanently out in my house, which my wife loves. But now my kids are interested in it. They definitely thought the old man was much cooler once I started playing again.

I got out of Grade school. I was in the Eighth Grade and I started playing guitar. I was into folk singing - Peter, Paul & Mary - until I heard the Beatles.

I am like a songwriter/guitar player without a band, like Chuck Berry.

When we retired to the living room and he picked up his guitar ... My 14-month-old son would just gravitate toward his pops. He'd start playing that Stevie Ray Vaughn song, Pride and Joy , and Michael Ray would crawl over and try to help his pops play.

I was not a musician at the time. I had an acoustic guitar and I used to sing folk music and Bob Dylan songs. I loved rock and roll though.

I know in an earlier version he said there was one song that features my bass and guitar. It made him cry every time he heard it; not necessarily because of missing me, but because it was a successful little jam. That was going to be on the album, but I think that may have been several albums ago.