I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to…

I went through eight years of classical piano lessons without being able to read notes. I only have to hear a melody to be…

— Liam Howlett

I can't read notes well, but I can hear something and sing a harmony to it automatically.

— Sharon Van Etten

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

— David Russell

I'm on this eternal quest to get the best guitar sound in the world, but my vision of what is 'the best' changes every…

— James Hetfield

I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music…

— Dick Dale

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's…

— Eddie Van Halen

Being in a band with three guitar players, one thing you need to do is learn to make each guitar voice sound separate and…

— Don Felder

A good player can make any guitar sound good.

— Mike Bloomfield

I like to make my guitar sound mean.

— Mark Tremonti

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

— Adrian Belew

I'm not an amazing trumpet player. It's mostly smoke and mirrors. You shake the trumpet and it starts to vibrate in a ridiculous drunken…

— Zach Condon

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or…

— Dennis McKenna

Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.

— Joe Eszterhas

Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always read. He…

— Rawi Hage

I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]

— Bill Hicks