Quotes by Guitar The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy. Anton Yelchin guitar simple moving It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar. Arlo Guthrie motorcycle mountain guitar I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar. Arthur Darvill piano guitar feelings My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back. Arthur Darvill guitar dad young The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me. Arto Lindsay being-different guitar real I sit down with a guitar player and if there's a situation I feel strongly about, or a guy that I've been thinking about or if I'm mad at a guy, it comes out. Avril Lavigne guitar player thinking A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me. B. B. King guitar music old-friends Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you. B. B. King guitar lying thinking I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions. B. B. King guitar emotion wanted I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound. B. B. King guitar play hands I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another. B. B. King guitar talking two We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so. B. B. King being-yourself guitar music Playing guitar is like telling the truth. B. B. King playing-guitar guitar telling-the-truth I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. B. B. King singers guitar men The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever. B. B. King depressing guitar player I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep! B. B. King guitar cutting kings Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world. Barney Kessel guitar music christian A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by. Barry Mann being-played piano guitar It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs. Barry McGuire guitar song fun Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school. Beau Bridges high-school guitar school «1234567891011»