Set i en gammel reklame for G&L Guitars:
"Mass production is for Soda Pop and Automobiles"

Guitarmen, wake up and pluck wire
for sound, let them hear you play
Charlie Christian, 1939

In 1962 when rejecting the Beatles:
"we don't like their sound,
and guitarmusic is on the way out"
Decca Recording

We didn't have any instruments,
so I had to use my guitar.
Mother Maybelle Carter

Keith Richards on how he keeps fit:
“Passing the vodka bottle
and playing the guitar.”

"Music is spiritual.
The music business is not."
Van Morrison

"All music is folk music.
I ain't never heard no horse sing a song"
Louis Armstrong

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

I've had three wives
and three guitars.
I still play the guitars
Andres Segovia

If you make the same
mistake 3 times, that
becomes your "arrangement"
Jorma

I realized that equipment
really had little to do with why
I sound like the way I sound.
Pat Metheny

I don't care about the rules.
In fact, if I don't break the rules at least
10 times in every song
then I'm not doing my job properly.
Jeff Beck

Experimenting with different
sounds is great, but when it comes
down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
Daisy Berkowitz

What I do now is all my dad's fault,
because he bought me a guitar as a boy,
for no apparent reason.
Rod Stewart

Without music to decorate it, time is just
a bunch of boring production deadlines
or dates by which bills must be paid.
Frank Zappa

Too many pieces of music
finish too long after the end.
Igor Stravinsky

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

I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still My Guitar Gently Weeps.
George Harrison

I just go where the guitar takes me.
Angus Young

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
Miles Davis

You can't be a politician with a guitar
John Doe

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
Jimmy Page

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.
Chuck Berry

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
Neil Young

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere
John Coltrane

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize
the top of the mountain is big enough for
more than one band.
Paul Stanley

Life is a lot like jazz...
it's best when you improvise
George Gershwin

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
Miles Davis

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
John Lennon

You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.
Sid Vicious

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Boxing is like jazz, the better it is,
the less people appreciate it.
George Foreman

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
George Harrison

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
Bob Dylan

You know what I hate about rock?
I hate tie-dyed tee shirts
Kurt Kobain

Avant-garde music is sort of research music.
You're glad someone's
done it but you don't necessarily
want to listen to it.
Brian Eno

"I suppose ultimately I'm interested
in music. I'm a musician.
I'm not a gunslinger. That's the
difference between what I do and what
a lot of guitar heroes do."
The Edge

“I like Wagner's music much better than
anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing you.”
Bob Marley

As much as you put into it
is as much
as you get out of it.
Nuno Bettencourt

“One good thing about music, when it hits you,
you feel no pain.”
Bob Marley

I've been poor and I've been rich
and rich is better
Bessie Smith

På forsiden bringer jeg skiftende citater om musik, musikere eller instrumenter.
Efterhånden som de bliver udskiftet, ryger de brugte citater over på denne side:

I often think in music, live my daydreams in music,
and see my life in terms of music.
I get most joy in life out of music.
Albert Einstein

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
Chet Atkins

Puberty was very vague.
I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.
Johnny Depp

When the band plays fast, you play slow;
when the band plays slow, you play fast.
Miles Davis explaining soloing

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate,
vicious form of expression
it has been my misfortune to hear.
Frank Sinatra

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada
and couldn't take his guitar with him.
When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.
Sting

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens
people and unleashes all manner of
conservative defense mechanisms.
Salman Rushdie

Når du får vurderet en guitar,
så spørg også hvad vurderingsmanden selv vil betale for den.
Hørt på Vintage guitar messen i Svendborg, 2009

Music is the language of the heart, the sound of the soul.
Joe Satriani

Play the music, not the instrument. 
Ukendt

Bicycles are almost as good as
guitars for meeting girls
Bob Weir

Actually 1978 was a really exciting time for U2.
We had just discovered F sharp minor.
So we had the fourth chord and we'd only had three up to then.
Bono on U2's early days

. . . but you have to give your whole life to a cello.
When I realized that, I went back to the guitar
and just turned the volume up a bit louder.
Ritchie Blackmore

All the world is birthday cake,
so take a piece, but not too much.
George Harrison

Dick Cavett asked Jimi Hendrix something like,
How does it feel to be the best guitarplayer in the world?
To which Jimi replies, No, no ... what about the best
guitar player in the room ... I mean, what about in this chair?"

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar,
have taken all the sizes and all the shapes,
in order not to be separated from the man.
Andres Segovia

What makes the most money for this
business? Dead rock stars.
Courtney Love

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to
bread - without it, it's flat.
Carmen McRae

I'm not God's gift to rockabilly.
There's great players out there, and
some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.
Brian Setzer

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.
Lou Reed

I've messed myself up more playing music
than when I played football.
Zakk Wylde

I saw "A Hard Day's Night"
12 or 13 times.
Pat Metheny

I don't like nostalgia
unless it's mine.
Lou Reed

The great thing about
rock and roll is that someone
like me can be a star.
Elton John

We all have idols.
Play like anyone you care about
but try to be yourself while you’re doing so.
B. B. King

The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief. 
S. A. Sachs

I don't read music. I don't write it.
So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
James Taylor

"Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
Victor Hugo

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.
Art Blakey

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank Zappa

 My mother has always been unhappy with what I do.
She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer
Mick Jagger

I always use the same guitar;
I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds.
It's still got the same strings on it.
Brian Eno

It all comes down to the density
of the wood.
Every guitar's different
Robin Trower

"I'm good at what I do - simple kind of stuff. But I'm a Pete Townsend
kind of player. I hit it hard. I shake it a lot. But I don't do anything fancy.
It's very rock and roll.”
Chase Westfall

“I’m pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don’t use many gadgets,
and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.”
Brian May

Too much Ego will kill your talent
Ukendt tekstforfatter

Once we're inside a tune,
we can do anything with it.
Keith Jarrett

Den som blot gemmer sig
bag noderne, begår en forbrydelse
Adam Fischer

I only write about stuff that’s happened to me. . .
stuff I can’t get past personally
Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive
Amy Winehouse

I used to be disgusted;
now I try to be amused
Elvis Costello

". . . maybe the most important thing
each generation does, is to break a lot
of rules and make up their own way
of doing things"
Jackson Browne

Jimi Hendrix blev engang spurgt om hvordan
det var at være verdens bedste guitarist.
Han svarede "Det ved jeg ikke, hvorfor spørger du ikke Rory Gallagher?"

Livet er som en hullet landevej
- nogle har bare bedre støddæmpere. . .
Kim Larsen

It's taken me all my life
to learn what not to play
Dizzy Gillespie

Success is falling nine times
and getting up ten
Jon Bon Jovi

Playing music is the best thing in the world.
It makes show business almost bearable
David Johansen, New York Dolls