Welcome to my page of guitar quotations! It’s always growing.
In 1962 when rejecting the Beatles “we don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out”
Decca Recording
“The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.”
Andre Segovia
“Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole.”
Keith Richards
“It took me 20 years to learn I couldn’t tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.”
Chet Atkins
“Anyone who used more than three chords is just showing off.”
Woodie Guthrie.
“When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.”
Miles Davis explaining soloing.
“A good player can make any guitar sound good.”
Michael Bloomfield
“Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.”
Eric Clapton
“Practice like the Devil.”
Doc Watson
“You know it’s a great blues tune if you can screw it up, and it still sounds good.”
John Miller
“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
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“I smash guitars because I like them.”
Pete Townshend
“It took me a lotta years to get this good.”
Dave Sharp
“You don’t need all that extra stuff, just play the chords.”
Dave Sharp
“Any problem you can’t solve with a good guitar, is either, unsolvable or isn’t a problem.”
