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Classical Guitar Quotes

Where a musical life often begins.

Several of these classical guitar quotes trace back to a single gift or lesson - a Goya guitar received on a sixteenth birthday, a father's example passed down at home. It's a instrument that shows up again and again as the starting point of a musical life. Compare notes with Birthday quotes.

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do -...

Quotes by Stevie Nicks

I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon-string guitar hanging on the wall in my house and a bunch of classical guitar books to grab. I kind of do that just...

Quotes by Rivers Cuomo

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.

Quotes by Mick Mars

I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part.

Quotes by Lee Ritenour

Always Quotes

I had piano lessons when I was five or six years old, so my mom got me this little keyboard in my room. And then it progressed from that to classical guitar and drums and oboe.

Quotes by Lapsley

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

Quotes by Kip Winger

It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.

Quotes by Jim Sullivan

My dad was my first influence. He played classical guitar and my uncle Ron played the blues.

Quotes by Jason Becker

Andres Segovia, the great name for guitar, he put classical guitar on the map. He was the proponent of it, the best in the world. So I was listening to a record that he had made, and a little bauble...

Quotes by George Benson

Best Quotes

I studied classical guitar in school, and that type of stuff has led to writing for Kronos.

Quotes by Bryce Dessner

My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I was studying classical guitar very seriously.

Quotes by Bryce Dessner

I've always been in rock bands. I was in a rock band with my brother in high school. Then I was playing classical guitar recitals, and people said, 'You know, you can't really do both things.' My intuition told me...

Quotes by Bryce Dessner

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

Quotes by Boz Scaggs

I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.

Quotes by Andy Rourke

Birthday Quotes

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

Quotes by Andy Summers

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

Quotes by Andrew Garfield

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

Quotes by Alex Lifeson

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these classical guitar quotes focus on?
Mostly personal beginnings - a birthday gift that led to a first song, a father's example at home, and the discipline of practicing for hours to build real technique.
Why is a birthday guitar mentioned specifically?
One musician recalls receiving a Goya classical guitar as a sixteenth birthday gift and writing a song that same day, describing it as the moment they realized songwriting was their calling.
Do any quotes mention blending classical guitar with other genres?
Yes, one artist talks about taking classical guitar lessons specifically to bring that technique into hard rock, showing how the instrument's discipline can feed very different styles.
Is family influence a theme on this page?
It is - one quote credits a father who played classical guitar and an uncle who played blues as the earliest musical influences in that person's life.
What page pairs well with classical guitar quotes?
Try Birthday quotes for more on milestone gifts and memorable turning points.

Between hours of quiet practice and the pull toward hard rock later on, these musicians describe classical guitar as both discipline and foundation. Keep reading with Body quotes for more on craft and discipline.