Guitar Music Quotes

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

B. B. King

Love, Inspirational, Life

"The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

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

Charlie Parker

Music, Art, Reality

Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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

Elvis Presley

Music, Witty, Humorous

Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984)

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

Jimi Hendrix

Music, Mistake, Guitar

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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

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

Jimi Hendrix

Music, Fake People, Peace

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Victor Hugo

Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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Man, there's no boundary line to art!

Charlie Parker

Music, Art, Men

Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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

Charlie Parker

Music, Jazz And Life, Boundaries

"Bird: the legend of Charlie Parker". Book by Robert George Reisner, p. 27, 1977.

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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.

Eddie Van Halen

Music, Mistake, Men

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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.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Music, Keys, Play

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

Waylon Jennings

Inspirational, Ems, Kind

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

Wynton Marsalis

Mistake, Trying, Ifs

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

Pablo Picasso

Life, Motivational, Music

"LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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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.

Jimi Hendrix

Music, Safe, Way

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

Jimi Hendrix

Love, Music, Sacrifice

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

Victor Hugo

Music, Wisdom, Art

Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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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

Music, Kids, Guitar

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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.

Chet Atkins

Funny, Inspiring, Music

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A good player can make any guitar sound good.

Mike Bloomfield

Music, Player, Guitar

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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.

John Lee Hooker

Mean, Play, Want

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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

Guitar, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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

Jimi Hendrix

Music, Kids, Naked

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

Andres Segovia

Color, Voice, Different

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

Jimi Hendrix

Love, Inspirational, Life

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