I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I…

I did everything I could to not bring in any of the - any of the technical things I got from classical into jazz.…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

I got a classical piano training when I was little, and we also had music study lessons where we'd have to listen to a…

— Kerli

I studied classical guitar in school, and that type of stuff has led to writing for Kronos.

— Bryce Dessner

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

— Oscar Isaac

I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand.

— Michael Gambon

When I was 9, I got guitar lessons in my school, just classical guitar. I didn't really like it much. Nowadays, I appreciate classical…

— Declan McKenna

It wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many…

— Jim Sullivan

The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should…

— Steve Vai

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to…

— Alex Lifeson

My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I was studying…

— Bryce Dessner

It takes a lifetime and a half to master the classical guitar.

— Julian Bream

Andres Segovia, the great name for guitar, he put classical guitar on the map. He was the proponent of it, the best in the…

— George Benson

There are three virtuous styles of music; classical, jazz and heavy metal. I do love classical music but I don't listen to it much…

— Gregor Schwellenbach

For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.

— Floor Jansen

... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but…

— Roger McGuinn