I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that. — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable. — Robin Trower Copy Share Image
I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17. — Donovan Copy Share Image
If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it… — William Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
If I don't channel pain into a song, I play my guitar or play the piano or play my drums, or go… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do. — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
I leave scientists mentally scarred, Triple Extra Large, Wild like rock stars who smash guitars... — Inspectah Deck Copy Share Image
Playing guitar, even just in my house, I was worried that my neighbors could hear me sound bad. It takes time to… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
There is no piece of guitar music that has the formal beauty of a piano sonata by Mozart, or the richly worked… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
In L.A., I played with Joe Pass and Gabor Szabo. Mick Goodrick plays guitar in the Liberation Music Orchestra, and he's a… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
What Jimmy Page did was pretty inspiring for guitar players. He married a lot of acoustic elements into hard rock. The kind… — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging… — Jack White Copy Share Image
If I pick up a guitar, I don't practise scales. I never have. I come up with something I haven't done before,… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to Ravel, Debussy, Bartok and jazz like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Charlie Christian and Django Reinhart.… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
There's two or three kids out there trying to make good music, and the rest of them sound like it's been strained… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later… — Charlie Byrd Copy Share Image
I was a huge Beatles fan. We could talk about who I listened to growing up and what my sources were, but… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
'Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything myself. A lot of the songs on there have a particular… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
... I would urge a young player to listen to Charlie Christians' sense of time ... I'll never forget listening to my… — John Pizzarelli Copy Share Image
I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like… — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
I was trained at classical piano as a youngster back in PA. To rebel, I bought a drum set and played in… — Jeff Cardoni Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships. I've got a couple… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like… — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
Branching out to other genres - I think it's why people put me apart from other guitar instrumentalists. — John 5 Copy Share Image
I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig. — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of… — Paul Reed Smith Copy Share Image
What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four. — Faye Kellerman Copy Share Image
People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women. — Glenn Frey Copy Share Image
Link Wray and Gene Vincent… two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with… — Ace Frehley Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to accept the idea that the guitar can take the place of a singer. — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not. — Rufus Wainwright 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
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
“There’s secrets hiding inside this six-string just waitin’ for somebody to find ‘em and turn ‘em into music.” — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
Classical music can be catchy, so can African instrumental guitar music. It's not just pop songs that are catchy. Rhythms can be… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life. — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
