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I just rediscovered my guitar. -- Ben Gibbard
I've got holes in my guitar. -- Dick Dale
My sunglasses are like my guitar. -- Patti Smith
The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar. -- Stevie Nicks
I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another. -- B. B. King
Tonight I just need my guitar. -- Jimmy Buffett
I like to make my guitar sound mean. -- Mark Tremonti
She was just another notch on my guitar. -- Robert Cray
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions. -- B. B. King
I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar, -- Elena Tonra
When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar. -- Michelle Branch
I've got my girl and my guitar, and for me that's enough. -- Tiffanie DeBartolo
I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes. -- Otis Rush
Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing. -- Tom Petty
Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me! -- Big Bill Broonzy
My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune. -- Bob Dylan
God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play. -- Link Wray
From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code. -- Jason Hicks
In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again. -- Peabo Bryson
Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out. -- Bert Jansch
I'm actively going out onto the porch and noodling around on my guitar. -- Jemaine Clement
I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats. -- James Hetfield
My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer. -- Alexander Ludwig
I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar. -- Joe Satriani
I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist. -- Little Richard
When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it. -- Dick Dale
Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide. -- Bob Dylan
It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life. -- Terrence Howard
I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits. -- Ace Frehley
I won't be able to live without my guitar, my phone or my boots on tour. -- Skylar Laine
Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing. -- Lee Ritenour
She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat. -- Bob Dylan
When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song. -- Kevin Bacon
My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar! -- Iris Dement
Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray. -- Pete Townshend
The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra. -- Harry Chapin
If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all. -- Joe Satriani
I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music. -- Juanes
In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms. -- Don McLean
People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts. -- Joey Santiago
When it is possible that people don't understand my English, I take my guitar and speak with my music! -- Celedonio Romero
But the day that I die will be the day that I shut my mouth and put down my guitar. -- Bradley Nowell
I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come. -- James Taylor
It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar. -- Arlo Guthrie
I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it. -- Glen Hansard
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar. -- Jimi Hendrix
I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat. -- Wes Montgomery
I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms. -- Moby
I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something. -- Chris Isaak
The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work. -- George Benson
I watch movies and hang with my family, go shopping, love to cuddle with my dog, Happy, & write songs with my guitar! -- Megan Lee
And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time. -- Beau Bridges
I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway. -- Brian May
If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go swimming. -- Jimmy Cliff
I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day. -- Eddie Murphy
The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs. -- Brittany Howard
While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio. -- Robin Trower
When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs. -- Burton Cummings
If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar. -- Kirk Hammett
Sometimes I feel like nothin,' somethin' throwed away, Somethin' throwed away. And then I get my guitar, play the blues all day. -- William Christopher Handy
I don't consider myself a skilled enough instrumentalist to be able to create the atmosphere that I want with just my guitar by myself. -- Thalia Zedek
I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar. -- Dan Bejar
When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar. -- Bruce Springsteen
Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day. -- Patti Smith
When people ask me if I have a boyfriend, I tell them it's my guitar because, really, it's what takes up all my time. -- Michelle Branch
Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions. -- Pete Townshend
I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations. -- Madeleine Peyroux
I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does. -- Dick Dale
I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak. -- John Lennon
One day, I just decided I'm ready to go. So I went down with my guitar and sat on the front steps of Sam Phillips recording studio. -- Johnny Cash
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar. -- Chino Moreno
I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with. -- Glen Hansard
When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months. -- John Oates
In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform Oh Jean. -- Billy Boyd
I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the lyrics mysteriously disappeared from my guitar case. -- Dan Piraro
It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before. -- James Taylor
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. -- Eddie Van Halen
In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform 'Oh Jean.' -- Billy Boyd
It is very important to me that my songs can sound amazing with a big band or orchestra, but just as powerful and touching with just me and my guitar. -- Tessanne Chin
Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum lyrics. It's not really ever been my route. -- Aaron Bruno
I've actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can't add lyrics to it. -- Miley Cyrus
For my 20th birthday in March, I'll buy myself a present for doing my best. A one way ticket to Tokyo. All I need is my guitar and a pack of cigarettes. -- Ai Yazawa
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. -- Lou Doillon
I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings. -- Eddie Van Halen
At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'. -- Muddy Waters
My dream is to one day just be me and my guitar. I'm working myself to the core. Who am I, underneath everything else? I'm still on that journey, to find that core. -- Lykke Li
When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer. -- Eddy Arnold
Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band. -- George Thorogood
If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour. -- Kurt Cobain
I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when I bring the songs to people on stage, it's very joyous. -- Ani DiFranco
It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works. -- Ryan Adams
Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business. -- J.J. Cale
When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen. -- Lucinda Williams
If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour. -- Kina Grannis
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 always travel with my guitar. I take it myself - with me in my hand. I don't like to send it by cargo because it's dangerous. There is no way I would do that. -- Juanes
I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what. -- Teena Marie
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
Most of my guitars have been instruments that look cool. I'm not picky. I never think, 'Oh, this neck isn't made of ebony,' or, 'These strings don't feel correct.' It doesn't matter too much. -- James Hetfield
Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do. -- Colbie Caillat
It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar. -- Steve Vai
I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight. -- Steven Tyler
When Johnny Cash died, ... I picked up my guitar and got the idea that Bob Dylan was the last man standing, the last of the real gods. It was for Dylan, Cash, Lennon, Elvis that's what I was thinking. -- Jon Bon Jovi
Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like Eddie Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen changed everything; I don't necessarily like everything he did, but he definitely changed everything. -- Buzz Osborne
I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch. -- Beth Orton
I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It's where my heart's at. -- Billy Unger
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. -- Miley Cyrus
I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine. -- Angus Young
When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar. -- Paul Weller
I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard. -- Jeremy Renner
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
All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar. -- Ian Anderson
When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot. -- Miranda Cosgrove
James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on bass has played with Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell and Bruce Springsteen, and they're fantastic musicians and amazing singers they get a really cool vocal sound together. -- Vonda Shepard
Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..I might as well go back over yonder, way back across the hills, if my baby dont love me no more....i know her...sister will -- Jimi Hendrix
And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won't be a nothing anymore... -- Thom Yorke
I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head. -- Jeremy Irons
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
Sometimes I feel like I'm taking on a role when I'm writing a song, and it doesn't always have to be true. I'm not sitting in my room crying with my guitar, writing a slow solo about a depressing breakup; that's not me. -- Mitchel Musso

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