The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. — Andres Segovia
The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few. — Franz Schubert
Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two. — Frederic Chopin
A guitar is more than just a sound box... it is part of your soul. — Manuel Velazquez
Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole — Keith Richards
The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else. — Brian May
The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination. — Carlos Santana
The violin - that most human of all instruments. — Louisa May Alcott
My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there. — Brian Eno
There' something about universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life. — Jim Croce
The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well. — Andres Segovia
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. — Andres Segovia
But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go. — Eric Clapton
I play guitar because it lets me dream out loud. — Michael Hedges
Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything. — Joe Pass
Short Classical Guitar Quotes
If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar — Neil Young
A good player can make any guitar sound good. — Mike Bloomfield
I just go where the guitar takes me. — Angus Young
Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument. — Steve Vai
The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive. — Colin Greenwood
When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time. — Joe Satriani
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter. — Bill Bruford
Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin — Suzi Quatro
Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll. — Keith Moon
A classic is a book that has never been finished saying what it has to say.
Classical Music Quotes
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words. — Victor Hugo
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch? — Lara St. John
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. — Satyajit Ray
One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group. — Lesley Garrett
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. — Leopold Stokowski
With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues. — Brian Setzer
I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera. — Cecilia Bartoli
I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories. — Hans Frank
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 - write songs and sing them to people. — Stevie Nicks
I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt. — Marc Ribot
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar. — Marc Almond
The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument. — Steve Vai
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. — Boz Scaggs
I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. — Suzi Quatro
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-write songs and sing them to people. [...] Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was. — Stevie Nicks
When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned for myself. But in reality the experience of getting into music was just the opposite. My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings. — Andrew Garfield
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. — Jimmy Page
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. — Mick Mars
I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar. — Ted Nugent
I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head. — John Fahey
I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. — Mike Figgis
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. — Andy Summers
The use of rock, folk, or pop music serves a purpose. It gets people into the church. But an inexperienced guitar player who doesn't have much to say, for example, can make me wish to leave the church immediately, whereas one great jazz or classical guitarist can confirm that I will have a spiritual experience in the church. — Dave Brubeck
I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references. — Mark Kozelek
The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar. — Jimmy Page
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. — Kip Winger
I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs. — Jake Owen
I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated. — Cory Arcangel
I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube. — Peter Capaldi
It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar. — Steve Vai
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. — Jim Sullivan
I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation. — Anna Ternheim
I just recorded in studios, you know, people pressed the buttons for me. So I just started recording the bass lines and guitar parts with my voice, covering classical pieces, or just making up melodies so I could learn how to use it. — Petra Haden
I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a career in music. I studied classical music, and my instruments were guitar and piano. I played keyboards in bands, and after high school I went to Vienna to study at the Academy of Music. I also became a session player, which culminated in my work with Tangerine Dream. — Paul Haslinger
I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar. — Fred Frith
I was trained at classical piano as a youngster back in PA. To rebel, I bought a drum set and played in some rock & roll bands. In college I picked up a guitar and became obsessed with practicing which led to playing guitar in indie rock bands in the mid 90's. Which led me to Los Angeles. — Jeff Cardoni
This year's Hippiefest tour is truly a 'Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour' - a landmark, historic, musical celebration of which my band and I are proud to be a part. It's going to be a Guitar Guru Gala of Gargantuan proportions. For me personally, it will simply be the Greatest! So, see you at one of the dates on the tour. Believe me, this is not one you want to miss. All I can say is Get Ready To Rock'n'Roll!!! — Edgar Winter
My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings. — Andrew Garfield
What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four. — Faye Kellerman
A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid. — Keith Richards
I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo. — Florence Welch
When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing. — Roger Waters
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