1. “All I’ve got is a red guitar, three chords and the truth.”
2. “Shut Up and Play your Guitar.”
3. “I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead.”
4. “I’m just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?”
5. “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.”
6. “I love playing guitar. It’s the only thing I’ve ever really been great at.”
7. “My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.”
8. “If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.”
9. “Let me live my life the way I want to.”
10. “Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string; I wouldn’t get bored anywhere.”
11. “I just want to be a guy with a guitar.”
12. “If you can’t play as good or as fast as me, just give up, sell your guitar on eBay and kill yourself.”
13. “I’m left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.”
14. “What’s the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.”
15. “The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It’s more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.”
16. “If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert”
17. “I just play, just you know? If I just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, a half an hour or an hour, whatever. That’s pretty much, that should do it for me.”
18. “The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.”
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19. “You couldn’t not like someone who liked the guitar.”
20. “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.”
21. “Except for a few guitar chords, everything I’ve learned in my life that is of any value I’ve learned from women.”
22. “It’s so satisfying as a guitar player to play stuff that’s related to the blues.”
23. “The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
24. “I’m only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.”
25. “Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don’t use it, so I haven’t been playing guitar too much lately.”
26. “Technically, I’m not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.”
27. “Besides being a guitar player, I’m a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.”
28. “I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.”
29. “I had struggled with alternate picking for a very long time. I never thought I could do it.”
30. “Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.”
31. “Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, save perhaps two.”
32. “I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.”
33. “I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.”
34. “When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don’t get to extreme heights.”
35. “Music is a necessity. After food, air, water, and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.”
36. “My God is rock’n’roll. It’s an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.”
37. “A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes.”
38. “Sometimes you’ll want to give up the guitar. You’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded.”
39. “Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.”
40. “What I couldn’t say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.”
41. “Playing guitar is like telling the truth.”
42. “There’s a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.”
43. “Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it’s the best guitar I own.”
44. “The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.”
45. “Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.”
46. “Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.”
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47. “If you really love guitar, you’re going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.”
48. “I like to be quiet and play guitar and just chill.”
49. “To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.”
50. “The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.”
51. “I think a good guitar solo sounds so much better within the context of a good song.”
52. “The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.”
53. “When God plays guitar he uses Jeff Beck’s hands.”
54. “The guitar chose me.”
55. “I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.”
56. “My first love was the sound of guitar.”
57. “I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s pretty honorable position to be in.”
58. “One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.”
59. “I’m a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.”
60. “If you play acoustic guitar you’re the depressed, sensitive guy.”
61. “The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.”
62. “I don’t read music. I don’t write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.”
63. “If I don’t practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.”
64. “You’re always learning about this thing every time you pick it up”
65. “I just love playing guitar, so that’s what I’m going to do.”
66. “I always liked the guitar sound.”
67. “If you pick up a guitar and it says, ‘take me, I’m yours,’ then that’s the one for you.”
68. “It’s a hobby for me, but I’m never alone if there’s a guitar there.”
69. “The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.”
70. “It’s amazing what the acoustic guitar can bring to the picture.”
71. “A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument.”
72. “My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I’ve always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.”
73. “I’ve always wanted to smash a guitar over someone’s head. You just can’t do that with a piano.”
74. “Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.”
75. “A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.”
76. “Owning a handgun doesn’t make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.”
77. “You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you’re committed. Little careful noise doesn’t work. You have to be bold.”
78. “I play guitar because it lets me dream out loud.”
79. “Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.”
80. “I wanted to create music that was so different from what my mother could tell from anyone else.”
81. “As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.”
82. “I’ve always wanted to be the best guitarist in the world, ever since I was eight years old.”
83. “A guitar is a lot like life, it can be strummed gently or you can play it furiously, either way, all the resonance is temporary.”
84. “I just play the guitar and write songs.”
85. “In pop music, you say, you can do what you want to me.’ Rock ‘n’ roll says, ‘I’m gonna do what I want to you.”
86. “We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they’re paid for it.”
87. “Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.”
88. “Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.”
89. “I wouldn’t mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don’t play the guitar.”
90. “Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling.”
91. “I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.”
92. “I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.”
93. “I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It’s become a pretty big part of my life.”
94. “When we started I wasn’t the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.”
95. “I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don’t run out of ideas by the time I get to my second or third chorus.”
96. “The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.”
97. “I find that musically, looking back, I have learned much more from those relationships, people I have bumped into that I have admired, that’s the way I feel musically I have learned most in life.”
98. “I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.”
99. “Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.”
100. “The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that’s my idea of a good time.”
101. “The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.”
102. “I try to practice like a well-rounded regiment of things where I can kind of do whatever I wanna do and I also have to practice the actual songs to keep that under my fingers as well.”
103. “I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.”
104. “Don’t use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.”
105. “I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.”
106. “Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”
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107. “Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.”
108. “From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.”
109. “I’ve always loved the electric guitar; to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.”
110. “Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.”
