I'll only pick up my guitar if something is knocking on the door. Once the melodies have sort of been bothering me… — Jim James Copy Share Image
I decided, "Well, I'll be a forest ranger!" Because I thought, "I'll get to go out in the woods, I'll be in… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
Practice, practice, practice. Practice until you get a guitar welt on your chest...if it makes you feel good, don't stop until you… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I think I might have played a song on piano or guitar in a school talent show. I went to an all… — Lapsley Copy Share Image
Dave Cobb is someone who shows up every day and is playing guitar and never takes his eye off the ball. That's… — Shooter Jennings Copy Share Image
I will keep a Bible or Koran on me at all times - the Bible I can actually carry on my phone,… — Rza Copy Share Image
I'm not a sports fan, but I remember watching highlights with post-rock guitar instrumental music over these slow-motion shots of football players.… — Brian Reitzell Copy Share Image
Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was… — Ikue Mori Copy Share Image
... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
Once you've developed some technical facility on the guitar, the musical side (which entails theory, harmony, chord structure, ear training, sight-reading, composition… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
Music is trying to tell a story, and I love the rock vibe. Hearing that finished product is almost the same high… — Jeff Hardy Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people in the industry and stuff who said no we don't want to sign a guitar band,… — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not being able to play makes one be able to listen and receive better. The constant noodling on guitar can be great,… — Jason Becker Copy Share Image
If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with sound, since I was a little kid when my mother Dorothy Dean took me to my first… — Mike Dean Copy Share Image
I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to.… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
People always lean toward who's the best guitar player, who's the best singer? I don't see it that way. They're all the… — Gregg Allman Copy Share Image
Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I started playing piano and guitar when I was in elementary school, and then I was finally like, 'I want to sing.'… — Ravyn Lenae Copy Share Image
I'd listen to a song and say, 'Hang on, I like that piano thing,' so I'd play the guitar like that and… — Malcolm Young Copy Share Image
I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I think my best advice for young guitar players is that it's not an easy road - definitely not; female guitar player… — Nita Strauss Copy Share Image
Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons.… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It's just something I've always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a… — Roy Wood Copy Share Image
It's annoying when you've got a guitar and you're working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
I got to Brighton in the late 90s and discovered samplers. Suddenly, I could be my own band with a guitar and… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
I can embarrass myself very easily on guitar. It's funny because people say to me I can play anything; I'm God on… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting… — Feist Copy Share Image
But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff… — Charlie Hunter Copy Share Image
In my case, I am improvising with existing sound files. I use an MSP patch that a friend of mine made, and… — Christian Fennesz Copy Share Image
Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
I had a rock and roll band as a kid. What I wanted to be in was a country band, but in… — Keith Whitley Copy Share Image
I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone… — Scott Patterson Copy Share Image
No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing;… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image