Guitar Quotes

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

I came to NAMM once and saw this guitar that self-tuned, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is the future!’ And I’ve never seen it again.

I grew up in the ’60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn’t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

And he was about my age, and he just, that finished off my guitar career, just like that, in one afternoon.

Yeah, Jody [Porter] left. He’s a great guitar player.

The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn’t really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.

From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it’s amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.

The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.