Guitar Music Quotes

Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties. ~ Pete Townshend

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar. ~ Dizzy Gillespie

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do. ~ Waylon Jennings

This machine kills fascists. ~ Woody Guthrie

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar. ~ Don Johnson

I may not have written the song, but I could add my story to it. Everyone out there could. That was what made music so powerful. ~ Tara Kelly

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar ~ Eddie Van Halen

Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar. ~ Dave Edmunds

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. ~ Andres Segovia

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. ~ Michael Storm

I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now. ~ Brian May

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world ~ Millie DeWitt

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you. ~ Nuno Bettencourt

In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing with friends. Guitar inherently lends itself to be guitar music, especially when you're not good at guitar. ~ Autre Ne Veut

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It's because we're different every day, but the guitar is always the same ... beautiful. ~ Tommy Emmanuel

Guitar music or rock n' roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it'll never go away completely. It can't die because it's so fundamentally attractive. ~ Alex Turner

Surf music is played through a Showman amp with a Stratocaster guitar. ~ Dick Dale

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going. ~ Wes Montgomery

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying. ~ Wynton Marsalis

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

The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears.
But this beat is fast and even though his joints are aching, his arm's out of control like it has a mind of its own and the sweat tat drenches his hair and face seems to smother him, but nothing's going to stop Tom. He;s aiming for oblivion. ~ Melina Marchetta

We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter. ~ Noel Gallagher

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

What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four. ~ Faye Kellerman

It's interesting to see how acoustic guitars are emerging as a primary instrument once again ... reminds me very much of what Jim Messina and I were doing back then. You can't get too far away from an acoustic guitar ~ Kenny Loggins

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

The process always starts with detailed conversations with the director, followed by a spotting session (deciding where the music goes and doesn't go in the film, and what the music should be saying or not saying) in each scene. This is followed by sending the director demos of each cue for feedback. ~ John Keltonic

American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here. ~ Rokia Traore

See something you like?"

Miller tensed, going tight as a guitar string. "No, but God...Have you ever seen a dick that big before?"

Garrett couldn't resist teasing Miller a little. "Every morning when I take a piss."

"You wish." Miller tore his gaze away from the room's occupants and turned to stare at Garrett. "I remember your dick just fine, and it didn't look anything like that."

"Ah. Now you've gone and hurt my dick's feelings. Maybe you should kiss and make up. ~ Amanda Young

I never really sounded like Bird, but that was my mission. I didn't care if people said that I copied him; I loved Bird's playing so much. But Mingus was the one that really pushed me away from the idea and forced me into thinking about having an individual sound and concept. That's what I got from Mingus. ~ Jackie McLean

The use of electronics is a natural extension of the instrument - it is an electric guitar. So we guitarists have been plugging into something since 1931, and we are not about to stop now. Current advances in technology means we can have a huge array of sounds at our fingertips, and this offers amazing possibilities to the contemporary composer. It is always a guitar (I don't play synthesizer) but it becomes something else all together - more like sculpting sound in real time using metal wires, 5 fingers and a pick. ~ Tim Brady

I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old. ~ Lenny Kravitz

Monkeys are dangerous animals. Don't be fooled by the cute exterior," Eve said like she was imparting some sage wisdom.
"Look," I explained, "I'm sure those monkeys were just mad about something like being trapped in a cage or being forced to wear velvet vests and dance to accordion music. ~ Sloane Tanen

I have found among my papers a sheet ... in which I call architecture frozen music. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is a certain climax in life, at which, notwithstanding all our freedom, and however much we may have denied all directing reason and goodness in the beautiful chaos of existence, we are once more in great danger of intellectual bondage, and have to face our hardest test. For now the thought of a personal Providence first presents itself before us with its most persuasive force, and has the best of advocates, apparentness, in its favor, now when it is obvious that all and everything that happens to us always turns out for the best. (...) We want to leave the Gods alone and (...) wish to content ourselves with the assumption that our own practical and theoretical skillfulness in explaining and suitably arranging events has now reached its highest point. (...) We do not want either to think too highly of this dexterity of our wisdom, when the wonderful harmony which results from playing on our instrument sometimes surprises us too much: a harmony which sounds too well for us to dare to ascribe it to ourselves. In fact, now and then there is one who plays with us beloved Chance: he leads our hand occasionally, and even the all wisest Providence could not devise any finer music than that of which our foolish hand is then capable. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There were pauses in the music for the rushing, calling, halting piano. Everything would stop except the climbing of the soloist; he would reach a height and everything would join him, the violins first and then the horns; and then the deep blue bass and the flute and the bitter trampling drums; beating, beating and mounting together and stopping with a crash like daybreak. When I first heard the Messiah I was alone; my blood bubbled like fire and wine; I cried; like an infant crying for its mother's milk; or a sinner running to meet Jesus. ~ James Baldwin

You know what punk is? a bunch of no-talent guys who really, really want to be in a band. Nobody reads music, nobody plays the mandolin, and you're too dumb to write songs about mythology or Middle-earth. So what's your style? Three chords, cranked out fast and loud and distorted because your instruments are crap and you can't play them worth a damn. And you scream your lungs out to cover up the fact that you can't sing. It should suck, but here's the thing - it doesn't. Rock and roll can be so full of itself, but not this. It's simple and angry and raw. ~ Gordon Korman

Mere life is a luxury, and the color of the grass, of the flowers, of the sky, the wind in the trees, the outlines of the horizon, the forms of clouds, all give a pleasure as exquisite as the sweetest music to the ear famishing for it. The ~ Mark Twain

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it. ~ Joshua Bell

If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid. ~ Pete Fountain

For a long time in the 1970s, I was experimenting to build musical instruments and use them. I did a lot of ethnic music studies and other things, like electronic music. Making homemade musical instruments and performing was my major activity from the time. ~ Yoshi Wada

O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss. ~ Robert Bridges

I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine. ~ Vanilla Ice

Out of the deep and the dark,



A sparkling mystery, a shape,



Something perfect,



Comes like the stir of the day:



One whose breath is an odour,



Whose eyes show the road to stars,



The breeze in his face,



The glory of Heaven on his back.



He steps like a vision hung in air,



Diffusing the passion of Eternity;



His abode is the sunlight of morn,



The music of eve his speech:



In his sight,



One shall turn from the dust of the grave,



And move upward to the woodland. ~ Yone Noguchi

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities ... much more so than music or language. ~ Conrad Hall

It's really interesting to go back to '93 or '94 and listen to that music, like the I'll Lead You Home record. ~ Michael W. Smith

Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs? ~ Mary Oliver

All language is an aspiration to music. ~ Steve Almond

I would go into periods of depression in my life, and I would feel so alone. I felt that there was no one who understood how I felt, either on TV or in music, and writing really helped me change what I thought and how I felt about myself. ~ Brie Larson

I like things that don't sound particularly processed or mechanical or made by machines. I like music that contains human elements, with all their flaws. There's air in it, and you can hear a room of a bunch of guys playing. Those are the magic parts. ~ Chris Stapleton

I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper ... ~ Kate Bush

I could never be in a situation with a job where I was not allowed to listen to music all day. I would rather work at a fast food restaurant where I could turn on the radio all day rather than be in a situation where I have to sneak and listen to music. ~ Kanye West

Music is the ultimate teacher. ~ Wassily Kandinsky

It was pretend.

It was supposed to be this act professionals do for laughs. For profit. For whatever it was until it no longer was any of those things for the two people that mattered: me and him. ~ Erin Hahn

I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video. ~ Rick Springfield

I would say he was gay." "What the hell are you talking about?" "Think about it. He's dramatic, he knows how to decorate, likes wimpy music - if he said anything about show tunes I would have to call in a pro to figure this out. ~ Carol Maloney Scott

Baby, I love you. Pen ... More then I love the color black. More than I love cigarettes, more than I love books. Even music."
"More than food. More than art or stories. More than words ... ~ Francesca Lia Block

Collin's playful look turned serious, and he stood, took Ellie's hand, and eased her up to join him. He pulled her into his arms, pressed her close against his hard body, and swayed to the music. Combing his fingers through her hair, he swept it away from her ear, and whispered huskily, "This feels right. ~ Tracy March

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy. ~ Gregory Bateson

If I see a chick playing guitar, I'm drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it's completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you're male. I can't help it. It's part of my nature. ~ Courtney Love

I'd never realized how bad that house needed music until I heard it, I knew right then that big houses need music more than little ones. ~ Charles Davis

I'm not a big fan of trying to be a sex symbol or any of that stuff because I really like the music to speak for itself. ~ Skylar Grey

The Winans have been some of my favorite people, and Marvin certainly has a real anointing when he preaches and sings; he's a great interpreter of my music. ~ Andrae Crouch

To us, it's vey natural. Initially, it sounded kind of strange to people, because it is different to put traditional Irish music in a pop and rock mode. But they get used to it
it is our sound. ~ Andrea Corr