My father started me off on the guitar, and we learned…

I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.

— Anna Ternheim

When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for…

— Moby

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

— Oscar Isaac

I learned classical guitar as a kid at about 7 or 8 years old. When I was about 14, I started dabbling in songwriting.…

— Passenger

The lute I use has 10 courses and 19 strings, which is quite a lot of strings and a quite different fingerboard width from…

— Julian Bream

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

When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned for myself.…

— Andrew Garfield

The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and…

— Jimmy Page

I had piano lessons when I was five or six years old, so my mom got me this little keyboard in my room. And…

— Lapsley

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into…

— Mick Mars

... 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

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely…

— Ken Hensley

I learned some classical music history, which I had done quite a bit at of Performing Arts. But I got some more with a…

— Jon Gordon

I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

— Gustav Holst