I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've…

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

I play classical music almost exclusively. I never mastered jazz or gospel in the way that my mother did. She was a fine improvisational…

— Condoleezza Rice

A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that…

— Jamie Foxx

I thought it would be interesting to play classical music on rock instruments.

— Rostam Batmanglij

My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with Bob Crosby's…

— Toni Tennille

My father did not bother that I play not a classical music. He always congratulated me for my development in music, I mean in…

— Richard Clayderman

Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and…

— Roy Wood

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

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

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

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