Guitar Phrases

Phrases

• Absolute pitch (the ability to determine a musical note by ear)
• Air guitar
• Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland musical score)
• Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
• Blunt instrument
• Country Pie (Bob Dylan song)
• Country rock
• Ear for music
• Elevator music
• Face the music
• Fender bender
• Fiddler On The Roof (1960s musical)
• Foxy Lady (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Guitar Man (Elvis Presley song)
• Guys And Dolls (Frank Loesser musical)
• Heavy metal
• Heavy rock
• Hey Joe (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Hold the purse strings
• House music
• I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
• If music be the food of love, play on (from Twelth Night by Shakespeare)
• Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry song)
• Led Zeppelin
• Let's face the music and dance
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• Memphis Tennessee (Chuck Berry song)
• Music Box (Mariah Carey album)
• Music City (Nickname of Nashville Tennessee)
• Music has charms to soothe the savage breast

• Music is art. Muzak is science (Muzak Corporation advertising slogan)
• Music to my ears
• Musical chairs
• My Fair Lady (Lerner and Loewe musical)
• No music, no life (Tower Records advertising slogan)
• No strings attached
• Pass the Dutchie (Musical Youth song)
• Popular music
• Pull strings
• Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Rock and roll
• Star Spangled Banner (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Steinway: the instrument of the immortals (Steinway Pianos advertising slogan)
• Stone Free (Jimi Hendrix song)
• Strange Brew (Cream song)
• Sweet Music (Nickname of Frank Viola)
• Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing (ABBA lyric)
• The Grand Ol Opry (tourist attraction in Nashville USA)
• The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
• The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
• The best way to get music out of your system (Philips advertising slogan)
• The music of the spheres
• Tied to his mother's apron strings
• Two strings to his bow
• Van Gogh's ear for music
• Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix song)
• West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein musical and Natalie Wood movie)
• While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Beatles song)
• With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have music wherever she goes (line from nursery rhyme)
• Without music, life would be a mistake (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• World music