Munky Guitar Quotes

My mum had this idea I was going to be this long-haired hippie playing guitar and bought me one when I was 13, but my little brother picked it up instead and was such a natural, he kept it! Io Echo is a band my brother now plays in; they're really good. ~ Liberty Ross

Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness. ~ John Frusciante

I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking. ~ Jordan Gavaris

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

People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously. ~ Moby

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself. ~ James Taylor

I come from a very musical family. My dad taught me to play guitar. I play violin and drums as well. Violin, I started in elementary school. Drums actually came when I was in a program called 'Rock Star,' which was really awesome. We were doing a song by the Ramones, so I thought, 'Why not play the drums?' ~ Amandla Stenberg

The only difference between a winner and a loser is that one second when the winner decided not to give up. ~ Vikrmn

They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar. ~ David Lee Roth

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

We Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job. ~ Gene Tierney

A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable. ~ William Christopher Handy

Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players. ~ Brittany Howard

In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds. ~ Andrew Dost

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings. ~ Xila Toro

Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage. ~ Dave Grohl

Whatever her name was, she was pretty. She had a thick, careless braid of chestnut hair, a quick smile, and dark, merry eyes. She wore some kind of a fuzzy lavender pullover, and when she crossed her legs and lifted her guitar onto her lap, she had an interesting way of tucking the foot of the bottom leg back under her chair that made Hector feel melty. He looked away in self-preservation. ~ Lynne Rae Perkins

Who said I won't fail? I might. Who said I might give up? I won't. ~ Vikrmn

How can you, through my plain and simple words, possible experience the joy i felt when Robinson jumped into that Los Angeles pool, sledded on the golden sand of the Great Dunes, or kissed me in an ancient temple? How can you understand what Robinson meant to me? His laugh was like a peal of bells. He really did consider Slim Jims to be their own food group. When he played the guitar and sang, whether it was in the cancer ward or in Tompkin's Square Park, everyone stopped to listen. He was magic ~ James Patterson

Be the one for others who they can look up to; the one you too want to. ~ Vikrmn

When you scratch these guitars, they bleed. ~ Brenda Sutton Rose

I smash guitars because I like them. ~ Pete Townshend

So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas. ~ Steve Vai

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat. ~ Bruno Mars

I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody. ~ Carlos Santana

I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly. ~ Jamie Blackley

Mia's smile is melting chocolate. It's a kick-ass guitar solo. It's everything good in this world. ~ Gayle Forman

Epic is a word we often hear overused these days.
Epic is Echoes or the guitar solo in Comfortably Numb.
THAT is Epic. ~ Sienna McQuillen

If Heaven was a summer sky and a TV left on mute, then the Underworld was a starry night and an electric guitar with amps. ~ Charity Parkerson

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

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose. ~ Mark Knopfler

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

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it. ~ Erin McKeown

I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated. ~ Cory Arcangel

I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music. ~ James Vincent McMorrow

I think we choose gear by the way that it looks. We choose lots of things by the way that it looks. I don't like bands that look like roadies. I don't like when I can't tell who's the guitar tech and who's the guitar player. ~ Alison Mosshart

When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I started taking my guitar in the audience. I tripped, fell backwards and ripped my pants. ~ Meredith Brooks

Doctor, if I put this here guitar down now I ain't never going to wake up. ~ Huddie William Ledbetter

I like the sound of a Silvertone amp for myself. It's kind of cleaner guitar sounds when necessary, maybe a little less metal-sounding. But it really doesn't matter what amp I play through; it's really the way I voice chords and play guitar, how I strike the strings. ~ Brian Bell

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment. ~ Leo Kottke

It's one that still happens, actually ... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is. ~ Steve Morse

I like girls. That's the only reason I'm in the music business – I discovered you could get women to take their clothes off if you had a guitar. And they come off a lot faster if you can play it. ~ Lemmy Kilmister

I'm not a guitar collector. I own some guitars because I play. ~ Robin Zander

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not. ~ Rufus Wainwright

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. ~ Mark Knopfler

I consider the electric guitar to be like a drum with strings. It became the drum of the Baby Boom generation. And the drum has always been the center of the tribe, a new electronic tribe. ~ John Trudell

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable. ~ Robin Trower

I truly believe Brad is from another planet – not sure where, but he is otherworldly gifted. His dexterity, fluidity, and precision are extraordinary – and in addition to these shaving techniques, he's also not a bad guitar player. Just for the record, Brad has never actually asked me to start a band, and frankly that hurts! ~ Keith Urban