22 Movie Quotes about Guitars (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 26, 2025

Memorable quotes about guitars, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 He could've killed us! He touched my guitar!

Steve Buscemi as Wayne in Hotel Transylvania

2 My guitar is crushed. It's gone. Kaput. -Gone to that big tuning fork in the sky, huh?

Quote from Garfield Goes Hollywood

3 I got to get back to the '60s, man. That's what I wanna do. When I was younger... I wanna see Jimi Hendrix do that guitar on fire.

Quote from The Pursuit of Happyness

4 Number one... Look at that guy! He's got that sissy stringy music thing.

Quote from The Emperor's New Groove

5 What happened to you, boy? Easy with my guitar. Like you Jamaicans say, you wanna die?

Wyclef Jean as Richie Effs in Shottas

6 Oh well, I'm off to get my life sustaining supplies: cornmeal, and gunpowder, and hamhocks, and guitar strings.

Yukon Cornelius in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

7 I liked that guitar. It sounded good. I started moving around to the music, swinging my hips.

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump (1994)

8 Yeah. I saw him too. He had a guitar. He winked at me before he jumped out a fourth-floor window like he had wings.

Tony Todd as Grange in The Crow (1994)

9 Play something for me, Mr. Guitar. -Anything special? -Just put a lot of love in it.

Quote from Johnny Guitar (1954)

10 I only know three chords.

Cheech Marin as Pedro De Pacas in Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke