Usually what I do is I write my vocal melody over guitar parts and then I come up with lyrics. — Hope Sandoval Copy Share Image
For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing. — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment. — David Rawlings Copy Share Image
I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at, — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died. — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards. — Brian May Copy Share Image
A violin is tuned to a fifth. But a guitar is tuned to a fourth with a one-third middle. It is very… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff.… — James Hetfield Copy Share Image
I got really excited about it. But then we went into the studio and tried to record some with different musicians, and… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
The cult of the instrument is O.K. for people who are mad about the guitar. But I love music. The guitar is… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass… — Keith Morris Copy Share Image
I'll tell you, my dad played and sang, and it didn't take me long to figure out that playing a guitar was… — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image
To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to… — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
The expertise displayed by each musician is jaw-dropping and it's matched by their sensitivity and taste... Lizzy Hoyt displays equal mastery of… — Jim Sinclair Copy Share Image
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew… — Dean Geyer Copy Share Image
I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
These days I don't look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I've got no objections… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
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