I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and… — Michael Martin Murphey Copy Share Image
I'm not like other guitar players. In fact, I'm not even like most acoustic players because I use the nylon-string acoustic. I… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix came on TV on this documentary and it was this African-American soulful black guy, playing an electric guitar, which I'd… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
When I was 15 years old, my cousin and I formed a singing group called The Altaires. And, because we became the… — George Benson Copy Share Image
I had no idea I would become a musician; I fell into it. First, I had a band called Fancypants Hoodlum. It… — Peaches Copy Share Image
Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants. — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection. — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world. — Paul Reed Smith Copy Share Image
“Vitaly owns half a carton of Lucky Strikes, an electric guitar, and a hangover” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C,… — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or… — John 5 Copy Share Image
My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and… — George Benson Copy Share Image
I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little… — Ace Frehley Copy Share Image
I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different… — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
It took me a while to get an electric guitar and a bass and amps and stuff. Playing the acoustic guitar was… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing.… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio when… — Ronnie Milsap Copy Share Image
“The kids cheered every time the lights went on and a spotlight revealed Jimmy [Page] bowing his electric guitar, eliciting stygian growls… — Stephen Davis Copy Share Image
I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
First of all, who's your A&R? A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar? But he don't know the meaning of dope,… — GZA Copy Share Image
I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My dreams are always quite attainable, I wouldn't like to spend a lot of money on a car. I've got a mental… — Russell Kane Copy Share Image
I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
When I came to the States, I still wanted to be an electric guitar player. But moved to Santa Fe in '86.… — Ottmar Liebert Copy Share Image
![“The kids cheered every time the lights went on and a spotlight revealed Jimmy [Page] bowing his electric guitar, eliciting stygian growls and demonic shrieks, as if to draw the Dark One from his lair in hell. Invariably, some of the more astute of Led Zeppelin's listeners realized that what they…” quote by Stephen Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e8/stephen-davis-70230_electric-guitar_the-kids-cheered-every-time-the-lights-w_2989451.jpg)
