Fretboard Guitar Quotes & Sayings

Learning the notes on the fretboard is key to any guitarist's development on the instrument, and [Guitar] Trainer HD is a neat way to get that info burned into your brain without having to carry a guitar with you everywhere you go. Pretty cool! — Bryan Beller

We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians. — Edgar Mitchell

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied. — Robert K. Massie

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. — Orson Welles

Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot, showing off his car, five years after he graduated. — Rachel Maddow

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties. — Theodore Parker

Broad-shouldered, with skin of the desert and eyes of silver and ash, he was the kind of boy who turned heads and never noticed. The faint shadow of hair that darkened his jaw served only to accentuate features hewn from stone by the hand of a master sculptor. — Renee Ahdieh

If you are trying to get information across to someone, your ability to create a compelling introduction may be the most important single factor in the later success of your mission. — John Medina

I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and chords conventionally without having to relearn the fretboard, as one must do when playing in an open tuning. — Warren Haynes

She drew her knees up and dropped her chin on the top of them, smiling at him. Watching him. Caressing him with soft eyes. "You're going to go out there and act all tough, aren't you?"
"That's my intention, yes." He slipped a knife into his boots. It took discipline to keep his face pure stone when she made him want to laugh.
-Lexi & Gavriil — Christine Feehan

David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard — Dave Mustaine

And mind you don't talk about anything serious. Nothing is serious nowadays. At least nothing should be. — Oscar Wilde

The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory. — Tom Brokaw

Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard ... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless. — The Edge

I guess when you loved someone, you were willing to accept all the pieces and factors and fragments that made them up, the sum of those adding up to the whole, and you were left with no choice but to wholly accept the total of that creation. — A.L. Jackson

Black implies white self implies other — Alan Watts

I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don't think he ever took lessons; he was piecing it together himself. But he has great rhythm. And rhythm, to me, you can use it to your advantage if you're not all over the fretboard. — Brittany Howard

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile. — Lord Byron

Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that. — Malcolm X