Guitar Quotes

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn’t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that’ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

I’m a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.

I’m not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn’t come into it.

I’ve always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song. 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.

Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.

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.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.

I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.

In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that’s what I wanted to do with my life.