Guitar Music Quotes

I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.

We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

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.

A good player can make any guitar sound good.

Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You To Go") popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me. The words are about honesty and freedom inside the heart.

I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake at the top end of it whenever I hear it, I always think, Man I could've played it better ... but I like the way it sounds. I'd never heard a guitar sound like that before.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

Everyone has their own sound, and if you're heard enough, folks will come to recognize it. Style however, is a different thing. Try to express your own ideas. It's much more difficult to do, but the rewards are there if you're good enough to pull it off.

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

I'm always interested in very, very futuristic music and bridging the gap between the physicality of organic guitar music and trying to translate that into something electronic is really fascinating.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Navigating with a partner makes it half as difficult. We keep each other in check. It's not like she [Angie Marr] was ever a quiet little wifey wife behind the scenes. She's exactly like me. She's very smart. We're very lucky that we've always wanted the same things. She loves guitar music, she loves important records, and our lives are about records and shows and great bands.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Argentina is a very interesting culture because unlike Europe and the US, they did not abandon rock and roll music, they did not turn their backs on it. It's an important part of their culture. So guitar music is an important part of their culture. So me being into rock music, I get respect working there, which wasn't happening in Europe or in the US.