Guitar Quotes and Sayings

I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

Different Way • Guitar • Head • Keyboards • Keys • Look • Looking • Lot • Me • Real • Sound • Trying • You

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.

Another • Guitar • Singing • Singing Voice • Talking • Two • Voice

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

Blues • Blues Singer • Guitar • Man • Me • Myself • You

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

Connect • Emotions • Guitar • Human • Wanted

You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

Better • Blues • Blues Singer • Bluesman • Guitar • Lot • Man • Many • Me • Myself • Taught • Things • Think • You

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

DeArmond • Electric Guitar • First • Gibson • Guitar • Memphis • Pickup • Small • Used

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.

Cardiologist • Doctor • Doctors • Feet • George Benson • Guitar • Guitar Players • Heart • Me • One • Plays • Terms • Think

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess – she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

Beautiful • Good • Guitar • Half • Known • Lady • Me • Mother • Nine • Player • She • Something

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

Anything • Blues • Electric Guitar • Guitar • Him • Me • Never • Singlestring • TBone • Walker • Woman

Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.

Age • Bit • Guitar • Kinda • Little • Me • Much • Neck • Once • Thumb • Time

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

Baptist • Choir • Church • Gospel • Guitar • Local • Me • Minister • Myself • One • Play • Positions • Taught • Three

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.

Anything • Day • Ears • Every • Fool • Guitar • Music • Myself • Old • Open • Practice • Something • Swear • Time • Years

I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

Anyone • Baby • Crowd • Guitar • Jaguar • Jump • Own • Refuse • Touch

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

Back • Guitar • Hide • Never • Play • Rhythm • Rhythm Guitar

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music.

Adds • Anger • Bent • Body • Curvature • Damaged • Guitar • Music • Pain • Psychosomatic • Red • Red Irritation • Scoliosis • Spine • Stomach • Two • Ways

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Bacterial • Guitar • Infection • Play • Sing • Talking • Walking