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Most Famous Guitar Quotes of All Time!

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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

Quotes by Sammy Hagar

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

Quotes by Sammy Hagar

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

Quotes by Sam Palladio

My dad played guitar, and so there were always guitars kicking around the house that I was never allowed to touch. My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it...

Quotes by Sam Palladio

For me, I guess music has always been the through-line. You know, I played guitar from a really young age, and my dad played, and my cousin gave me a drum kit when I was 13, and I played bass...

Quotes by Sam Palladio

It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

Quotes by Sam Hunt

When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar,...

Quotes by Sam Hunt

I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs...

Quotes by Saffron Burrows

I will keep a Bible or Koran on me at all times - the Bible I can actually carry on my phone, and any hotel you go to has a Bible, but the Koran is harder. I keep a physical...

Quotes by Rza

I'm a dancer, so I do four hours of dance a week of ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary. I also play the piano and I just started learning the guitar.

Quotes by Ryan Newman

You have no idea what you're passionate about until you give it a shot. If I hadn't been given a guitar or a camera or whatever, I'd be doing something different.

Quotes by Ryan Lewis

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

Quotes by Ryan Cabrera

I play the guitar and the piano and have a group of guys who I play with. They're uber talented.

Quotes by Ryan Eggold

I can play 'Guitar Hero,' most of the songs on Medium and some of the songs on Hard. No Expert.

Quotes by Ryan Hansen

When I was little, 4 or 5 years old, the first guitar I had was given to me by a blacklisted violinist - a lefty, commie guy, pinko man.

Quotes by Ry Cooder

When I do find myself having downtime, I just put my guitar in my hands.

Quotes by Ruston Kelly

I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.

Quotes by Ruston Kelly

Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all...

Quotes by Roy Wood

When I was six years old, Mom and Dad gave me a guitar for my birthday, and Daddy taught me the chords to 'You Are My Sunshine.'

Quotes by Roy Orbison

During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.

Quotes by Ronnie Dunn

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about the guitar being a foundational instrument?
Yes — one puts it plainly: "The basic idea is always constructed around piano or guitar and a voice, that's what we live and die by, because if you build up from that foundation, it's going to be strong." It treats guitar as a core building block of songwriting. For more on the bigger picture of making music, see Music quotes.
Is there a quote comparing guitar to another instrument?
Yes — one compares it to organ: "To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ." It's a personal preference about which instrument stands out more in a mix.
Is there a quote about self-taught guitar playing?
Yes — one is refreshingly honest: "I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way." It celebrates a raw, personal style over formal training. For more on finding your own creative voice, browse Expression quotes.
Is there a quote about writing guitar parts around vocals?
Yes — one explains their process: "It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs." It shows a thoughtful approach to arranging music around the voice. For more on the feeling behind musical choices like this, see Emotion quotes.
What's the overall theme tying these guitar quotes together?
They show guitar as both a technical foundation and a deeply personal, expressive instrument — something players build songs around and pour real feeling into. For more on the drive that fuels musicianship, check out Passion quotes.

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