65 Guitar Quotes On Success In Life

These guitar quotes will inspire you. The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is held flat against the player’s body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strings against frets with the fingers of the opposite hand.

Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging guitar quotes, guitar sayings, and guitar proverbs.

Best Guitar Quotes

1. “Where words fail, music speaks.” ~ Hans Christian Andersen
2. “A guitar is more than just a sound box… it is part of your soul.” ~ Manuel Velazquez
3. “I’m only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.” ~ George Harrison

4. “Technically, I’m not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

5. “If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert” ~ Thomas Ian Nicholas
6. “My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.” ~ Joan Jett
7. “Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

8. “The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.” ~ Andres Segovia

9. “I play guitar because it lets me dream out loud.” ~ Michael Hedges
10. “My first love was the sound of guitar.” ~ Boz Scaggs
11. “I’m not trying to play the guitar. I’m trying to play music.” ~ Michael Hedges

12. “The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” ~ B. B. King

13. “I just go where the guitar takes me.” ~ Angus Young
14. “Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.” ~ Frederic Chopin
15. “To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.” ~ Waylon Jennings

16. “The guitar is your first wings. It’s assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.” ~ Carlos Santana

17. “One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.” ~ Tommy Emmanuel
18. “The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.” ~ Franz Schubert
19. “If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.” ~ Joe Pass

20. “I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.” ~ Les Paul

21. “Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.” ~ Pele
22. “Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.” ~ Eric Clapton
23. “With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.” ~ William Christopher Handy

24. “I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.” ~ B. B. King

25. “Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It’s the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.” ~ Stevie Ray Vaughan
26. “My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.” ~ Brownie McGhee
27. “But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.” ~ Midge Ure

28. “If you pick up a guitar and it says, ‘take me, I’m yours,’ then that’s the one for you” ~ Frank Zappa

29. “I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.” ~ Kurt Cobain
30. “Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I’m just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.” ~ Slash , Guitar quotes about life
31. “The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.” ~ Brian May

32. “The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.” ~ Colin Greenwood

33. “I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels.” ~ Niccolo Paganini , Guitar quotes love
34. “Listening is the key to everything good in music.” ~ Pat Metheny
35. “Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

36. “The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.” ~ Brian May

37. “Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.” ~ Miles Davis
38. “I just love playing guitar, so that’s what I’m going to do.” ~ St. Vincent
39. “God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.” ~ Link Wray

40. “I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

41. “If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar” ~ Neil Young
42. “Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone’s got their own character, and that’s the thing that’s amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone’s approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it’s all valid.” ~ Jimmy Page
43. “The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

44. “The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.” ~ Lou Reed

45. “Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole” ~ Keith Richards
46. “But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.” ~ Jason Mraz
47. “I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.” ~ Jimmy Page

48. “I’m full of dust and guitars.” ~ Syd Barrett

49. “A good player can make any guitar sound good.” ~ Mike Bloomfield
50. “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
51. “If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.” ~ Nuno Bettencourt , Guitar quotes music

52. “Owning a handgun doesn’t make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.” ~ Jeff Cooper

53. “So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.” ~ Stevie Ray Vaughan
54. “Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.” ~ Mark Knopfler
55. “There’s so much that can be done on the guitar. And that’s what is so good about the guitar – everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it’s all about.” ~ Jimmy Page

56. “It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar’s different.” ~ Robin Trower

57. “I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven’t put it down since.” ~ Slash
58. “I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.” ~ Steve Vai
59. “The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.” ~ Andres Segovia

60. “The Telecaster has two sounds – a good one and a bad one.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

61. “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.” ~ Keith Richards
62. “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.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne

63. “Shut Up and Play your Guitar.” ~ Frank Zappa

64. “I wish they’d had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would’ve been straightened out.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
65. “This guitar is such a pal. It’s a psychiatrist. It’s a doggone bartender. It’s a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I’ve got a problem, I’ll go pick my guitar up and play. It’s the greatest pal in the whole world.” ~ Les Paul

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