1. A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I’m very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.-Eddie Van Halen
2. The guitar is the instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.-Manuel de Falla
3. Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.-St. Vincent
4. Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it’s soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.-John Frusciante
5. My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.-Joan Jett
6. But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.-Jason Mraz
7. Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.-Johnny Marr
8. The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.-Andres Segovia
9. Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I’m just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.-Slash
10. The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.-Brian May
11. A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.-B B King
12. His heart was like a battered guitar; worn and scuffed from a life spent out on the road, but still capable of bringing forth beautiful music.-John Mark Green
13. The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.-Andres Segovia
14. Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.-Kirk Hammett
15. To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like em but you do.-Waylon Jennings
16. The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do, so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what it is.-Robin Trower
17. A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B stringg is off. Theoretically, that’s not right, all the strings should be off.-Eddie Van Halen
18. The guitar is like a cuisine and you can’t expect people to eat the same thing all the time.-Richard Lloyd
19. Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.-Dave Navarro
20. The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears. But this beat is fast and even though his joints are aching, his arm’s out of control like it has a mind of its own and the sweat that drenches his hair and face seems to smother him, but nothing’s going to stop Tom. He’s aiming for oblivion.-Melina Marchetta
21. The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.-Franz Schubert
22. The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.-Brian May
23. With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.-William Christopher Handy
24. 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
25. The guitar I now have is permanently out in my house, which my wife loves. But now my kids are interested in it. They definitely thought the old man was much cooler once I started playing again.-Michael Bland Wife
26. I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn’t my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.-David Gilmour
27. The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of when you play it, you sort of push it away. It feels very different.-Nick Cave
28. But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.-Eric Clapton
29. The guitar is a meditative tool to touch God and find love within yourself.-Pepe Romero