guitar quotes

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat. They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the Stars above And sang to a small guitar, 'Oh lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are'.

- Edward Lear
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'.

I will break their guitar.

-Joa n Miro 
Of the Cubists and their reliance upon the still-life.  Attributed in Saranne  Alexandrian Surrealist  Art (1970).

What seems to pass for guitar more and more now is some wimp with a fuzz box. Somewhere around Hendrix, the line was crossed.Hendrix had both: he had the hands and he had the fuzz box. Now all they have is the fuzz box.

- Iggy Pop
  In Rolling Stone,15 Apr.

They said,'You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are.' The man replied,'Things as theyare Are changed upon a blue guitar.'

-Wallace Stevens
  The Man with the Blue Guitar and Other Poems, title poem.