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The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar. -- Jimi Hendrix
Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid. -- Jimmy Page
Shut Up and Play your Guitar. -- Frank Zappa
Guitar playing isn't really for everybody. -- Brad Paisley
Guitar players never listen to lead singers. -- Steven Tyler
I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero! -- Aaron Yoo
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole -- Keith Richards
I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.' -- Carmen Electra
Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People. -- Meredith Brooks
I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture. -- Brett Ratner
The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown. -- Dick Dale
Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties. -- Kirk Hammett
Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive. -- Mick Ralphs
Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now. -- Dave Navarro
I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song -- Will Ferrell
Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos. -- Josh Homme
Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos. -- Josh Homme
Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct. -- St. Vincent
Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin -- Suzi Quatro
Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time. -- Kirk Hammett
My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room. -- Miranda Cosgrove
Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero. -- Vivian Campbell
I can play 'Guitar Hero,' most of the songs on Medium and some of the songs on Hard. No Expert. -- Ryan Hansen
My sunglasses are like my guitar. -- Patti Smith
I just go where the guitar takes me. -- Angus Young
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. -- Jimi Hendrix
When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar. -- Michelle Branch
I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes. -- Otis Rush
My brother plays guitar and base and writes. His name is Chase Ryan. -- Debby Ryan
I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people -- Doc Watson
Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it. -- Thom Yorke
So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too. -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar. -- Niall Horan
My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. -- Joan Jett
Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician. -- Jeff Cooper
Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person. -- Paul Weller
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands. -- Adam Jones
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar. -- Tina Weymouth
If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar. -- Krist Novoselic
Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded. -- Jimi Hendrix
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time. -- Syd Barrett
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. -- Jimi Hendrix
I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it. -- Jimmy Page
Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life. -- Slash
When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists. -- Andres Segovia
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. -- Keith Richards
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man. -- Andres Segovia
Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you. -- Ted Nugent
People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive. -- Siouxsie Sioux
I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself -- Johnny Winter
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. -- Brian Eno
I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play. -- Ozzy Osbourne
Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me. -- Chet Atkins
I've got a quick mouth, and I set my boundaries. Nothing ever happened that I couldn't handle. Once when a guy came on stage making rude gestures, I hit him over the head with my guitar. -- Suzi Quatro
I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips. -- Michelle Branch
Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts. -- Drew Houston
Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town. -- Hugh Laurie
I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to. -- Buddy Guy
I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound. -- David Gilmour
When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe dances around. -- Joe Perry
Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.' -- Angus Young
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. -- Stevie Nicks
One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D tuning, and of course, also being a guitar player, it's one of the songs that I really like the riff on it. -- Chad Channing
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange. -- Megan Fox
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano. -- Caleb Landry Jones
One thing I've noticed over the years is that young players - I mean 10- and 12-year-olds - really like my guitar style. There's something in my guitar style that they totally can latch onto and learn quickly, and then go from there to your Yngwie Malmsteens or your Steve Vais or whatever. -- Kirk Hammett
I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man! -- Ken Hensley
My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. -- Kurt Cobain
I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around. My dad taught me to play drums for 'Love Actually,' and I still play drums now. But I'm not a 'drummer.' I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist. -- Thomas Sangster
Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string. -- Pele
My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who i am -- Joan Jett
I have no guitar technique. -- Warren Zevon
I just rediscovered my guitar. -- Ben Gibbard
Every guitar has a personality. -- Jol Dantzig
I'm a struggling guitar player. -- Megyn Kelly
I never liked mellow sounding guitar. -- Tom Verlaine
Playing guitar is a never-finished journey. -- John Fogerty
When words fail, the guitar speaks. -- George Szell
I'm surrounded by great guitar players. -- Rick Springfield
A guitar has moonlight in it. -- James M. Cain
I'm not a good guitar player. -- Adam Jones
Tonight I just need my guitar. -- Jimmy Buffett
I've got holes in my guitar. -- Dick Dale
I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. -- Teena Marie
My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger. -- Juliana Hatfield
I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian. -- Stevie Jackson
Take this rifle, kid. Gimme that guitar. -- Bobby Bare
The guitar is an orchestra in itself. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Playing guitar is not a beauty contest. -- Ernie Isley
I don't recall getting a first guitar. -- Ronnie Montrose
I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar. -- Joni Mitchell
I shoulda learned to play the guitar. -- Mark Knopfler
I was a guitar player first off. -- Boz Scaggs
I'll never be the best guitar player. -- Chad Kroeger
I can't do anything but play guitar. -- Tommy Bolin
I can write songs without a guitar. -- Meredith Brooks
My guitar wants to kill your mama. -- Frank Zappa
I play the guitar a little bit. -- Jim DeMint
I sing a bit and play guitar. -- Jesse Metcalfe
Playing guitar is like telling the truth. -- B. B. King
Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large. -- Robert J. Sawyer
I started playing guitar kind of by accident. -- Ryan Cabrera
In 2010, I had been playing guitar for 50 years. -- Lee Ritenour
Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense". -- Mike Huckabee
Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. -- Hal Sparks
I don't read music; I taught myself guitar. -- Beth Orton
She was just another notch on my guitar. -- Robert Cray
A tennis racket makes a great fake guitar! -- Isaac
James Brown is the reason I play guitar. -- Kevin Eubanks
My first love was the sound of guitar. -- Boz Scaggs
Bass guitar is the engine of the band. -- Suzi Quatro
Bass is for people who can't play guitar -- Eddie Van Halen
I would love to study guitar or trumpet. -- Amy Winehouse
My guitar was a loyal person to me. -- Dave Mustaine
In the '90s, guitar solos were dead. -- Chris Daughtry
I'm learning on the guitar all the time. -- James Vincent McMorrow
I own a guitar, a piano, a bass. -- Adam Driver
He holds his guitar like a Tommy gun. -- Elvis Presley
I like to make my guitar sound mean. -- Mark Tremonti
But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen. -- Krist Novoselic

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