Guitar Tune Quotes & Sayings

A friend with seed (capital), is a business-man in deed. — Vikrmn

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune. — Pete Seeger

We tune differently, and we use some tricks. There's just the two of us for much of a concert, so we want a big sound. We do use some guitar effects, distortion and delay. Playing cello with distortion sounds so good. — Luka Sulic

Why am I walking, where am I running
What am I saying, what am I knowing
On this guitar I'm playing, on this banjo I'm frailin'
On this mandolin I'm strummin', in the song I'm singin'
In the tune I'm hummin', in the words I'm writin'
In the words that I'm thinkin'
In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinkin'
Who am I helping, what am I breaking
What am I giving, what am I taking — Bob Dylan

We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that. — Kurt Cobain

If someone tells you that you can't do it then it actually means that they can't do it. — Vikrmn

To me, the producer is there to make sure the album gets done and gets done as good as possible. So if that means that you have to help write a bridge or help write a part, that's what you do. If that means you help tune the guitars, then that's what you do. If that means all you do is tell the band their takes are good and they should stop f - - - with things, then that's what you do. Sometimes it's a little more stressful than others, but for the most part, you just don't complain about it and you just get it done. — John Congleton

If you are having trouble making a chord, get a book, that is how I learned. There are guitar tuning apps so you can tune your guitar, and just learn how to play along with your records. And it's great to be able to play along with another musician. That is like trial by fire. — Joan Jett

Rainbow of happiness is the byproduct of your inner sunshine, after the rain of sorrows. — Vikrmn

We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care, we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. — Kurt Cobain

When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work. — Chris Pratt

Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean very often. I remember being made very uneasy the first time I heard Rumble , and yet very excited by the guitar sound. And his voice! He sounds like a cross between Jagger and Van Morrison, even sometimes like Robbie Robertson. We met him in New York in 1970 while recording Who's Next ... this later inspired the b-side Wasp Man, a tune we dedicated to Link Wray. — Pete Townshend

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well. — Charley Pride

The first step to success is knowing that you failed to do something because many people don't even realise. Second step is to take a first step towards making your dreams true. — Vikrmn

I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune. — Shawn Mendes

What I enjoy about the live experience is getting onstage, being handed a guitar that is in tune, taking it off mute, knowing that the very moment I want to play a note, I can play it. People are waiting on me and I'm waiting on me, and I have no idea what I'm going to play. That's the biggest joy in life. — John Mayer

Return to the beginning. Enter by form. Clean your dojo. As you have every day, tie on the white belt and empty your cup. Pick up your guitar, tune, then play. — Philip Toshio Sudo

They were as unexpected as a mirage, those dancers on the Pont des Arts. Strictly speaking, the bridge is for pedestrians only, but waltzing is allowed on special nights like this. A guitar, a violin, an accordian -- a tune everyone knows -- and the dancers begin to twirl, spin, soar and glide all around us, in love with life at 3/4 time.



Did I say waltzing was allowed?


Under these circumstances, it's mandatory. — Vivian Swift

I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man! — Ken Hensley

You are the best at life and shine when you just be YOURSELF. Let nobody tell you that you are not capable of doing what you believe in. — Vikrmn

Never ever let anyone take the charge of your Guitar called LIFE. Tune your Dreams, for you are the composer of the tracks of your life. Why do you wait? What are you scared of? — Vikrmn

Be the one for others who they can look up to; the one you too want to. — Vikrmn

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass. — Douglas Adams

Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub. — Keith Richards

Forget the pain and the one who caused it, but not the lesson you learnt. — Vikrmn

Although I have guitars all around and I pick themm up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics amd I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me. — George Harrison

Smoking eats.. YOU. — Vikrmn

Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

To teach you need books, to educate you need heart. — Vikrmn

Life is like a guitar; Tune. Play. Repeat. — Vikrmn

Children dwell in their dreams. Get them the wings and they'll fly. — Vikrmn

Either you learn from or you are taught by; the PEOPLE. — Vikrmn

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs. — Brittany Howard

Life goes on.. no matter you are happy or not.. no matter you want someone to be happy or not. — Vikrmn

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune. — Bob Dylan

Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours; you would have friends less one. — Vikrmn

You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you. — Vikrmn

Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean. — Bob Marley

Challenge yourself today, to improve, for a better tomorrow than yesterday. — Vikrmn

There's a story here.
A catastrophic silence where our thoughts and feelings collide ...
Where your sweetness overrides my senses and our bodies move to the same tune.
The same song.
The same melody.
The same stroke.
The same rhythm.
It's our story, Trinity, and it's just begging to be told. — Nadege Richards

The success is like an umbrella. It has wires in it called faith. It has no meaning if there is no rain and storm called ebbs and flows of life. — Vikrmn

Let the pain of past not ruin the happiness of present and dreams of future. Move on. — Vikrmn

Work to live up to your dreams and fantasies; to hell with them who ask you to come back to reality. — Vikrmn

All that falls is not bad. — Vikrmn

The jukebox played some hillbilly tune; steel guitar and emotion-choked moaning ... — Philip K. Dick

The moment you think you are out of resources; you still have one thing, Will to Win. Ignite it. — Vikrmn

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting. — Sheryl Crow

We had a music teacher in sixth grade, and I saw her tune her guitar. I said, 'Whoa. There's a certain way to do this.' I bought a packet of strings - some of mine were broken - and had her tune it for me. For a while, I just kept it like that. But I got the Internet finally, when I was 14, and started learning. — Brittany Howard

When the wind is against you, like a kite, have your chord of faith rooted and you would fly highest ever. — Vikrmn

Be different.. be yourself. — Vikrmn

So I went ahead and made me a guitar. Igot me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, takeme a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I gotme some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised itup high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got mea tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on. — Lightnin' Hopkins

Beware of will power. It damages your giving-up skills. — Vikrmn

Strength is not only about winning the game; it's also about not giving-up. — Vikrmn

The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women — Waylon Jennings

The road to success is built up as you travel, its blue print never exists. — Vikrmn

I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers. — Ian McLagan

I met Jason Mraz when he had a concert in Korea as a cover contest winner of his songs! He was super nice to even tune the guitar that I also won from the contest for me and we decided to jam to one of his hit songs, " Lucky". I actually don't remember how I was able to sing because I was so nervous at the time but it would also be a dream come true if i can have the honor to share the stage with Jason Mraz one day! — Megan Lee

I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing. — Alex Lifeson

If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar.. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know the Harry Nilsson record. — George Harrison

He has one hand over her mound and works his fingers as if he was playing guitar, making beautiful music with her tiny button. He serenades her with a love song that only his fingers know how to pick- a tune that no man can duplicate. — Jane Emery

He played the opening bars again, opening a door for her, inviting her to join. She started quietly, almost voiceless, only a thin string of sound weaving herself into his tune, as if her voice were just another string on the guitar between his fingers. She had to be careful, so no one saw the changes on her face. But she didn't want to be careful; she couldn't be careful. He played and she sang to him, and inside her more and more blocks of ice began to melt, cracking and falling into the frozen sea between them. She sang of all the things that were happening to her and him, the world that collapsed over both of them, the things that might be in store, if only they dared to believe it was possible. — David Grossman

I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk. — Stevie Ray Vaughan

The Knowledgeable has the intelligent answer; but only the intelligent one asks for a knowledgeable question. — Vikrmn

COURAGE is the only currency; more you spend, richer you become; by earning the RESPECT. — Vikrmn

I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune. — Cameron Monaghan

There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?' — James Bay

The only difference between a winner and a loser is that one second when the winner decided not to give up. — Vikrmn

Later that evening I lay down in Min's empty bed upstairs and pulled her white sheet up over my head. I felt for my kneecaps and hip bones. I lay perfectly still, arms down, palms up. I closed my eyes and pretended I was floating in space, then at sea, then not floating at all.I hummed an old Beach Boys tune. In my room ... Min had taught me how to play it on her guitar when we were kids. — Miriam Toews