I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's… — Jeremy Spencer Copy Share Image
Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the… — Grant-Lee Phillips Copy Share Image
I just started doing this one-man show, and I wanted to be able to score it, so I bought a guitar, and… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
When we get together in the studio, music just comes out. I'll pick up the guitar, my cousin will come in and… — Skip Marley Copy Share Image
After the Ed Sullivan Show, Feb. 9, 1964, at approx. 8:04pm [laughs], after that moment every album, every guitar, evey set of… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
Tom Petty was one of my guitar students; I knew Duane, and Stephen and I had a band. When he left, Bernie… — Don Felder Copy Share Image
Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
I don't really feel like a rock artist, but I guess in the small category of the world of music genres, that's… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
I feel some allegiance to pushing electric-guitar music into a different realm, somewhere that isn't retrospective. There's a lot of guitar bands… — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great… — Ian McLagan Copy Share Image
I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
My guitar playing has not developed as much as I think it could because I never practice. I only play when I'm… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
My dad played guitar, and so there were always guitars kicking around the house that I was never allowed to touch. My… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club,… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me… — Otis Rush Copy Share Image
Playing guitar as a young teen, I didn't really have the little light bulb in my head that said you're committed until… — Steve Kimock Copy Share Image
My parents gave me guitar lessons aged five in the hopes I'd go into classical music and do grades, but as soon… — Griff Copy Share Image
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I… — Marc Almond Copy Share Image
The idea you start from is 'What's cool to a kid in their early teens?' So we had the guitar in 'Devil… — Hideaki Itsuno Copy Share Image
When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song. Pras did not affect me because, in… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been… — Buddy Guy Copy Share Image
Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists — Tim Brookes Copy Share Image
I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back… — Dustin Lynch Copy Share Image
These guitar institutes and things like that, I think they take away people's identity and they're actually encouraging a lot of people… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
I started playing violin when I was about five years old and I learned to read a little bit of music, but… — Mura Masa Copy Share Image
My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, 'Can I… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
You need to have spent your time from playing Top 40 pop rock in order to know how to play a song… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
I've learned not to let it be the end of the world if a boy doesn't like you. I used to put… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
So, really, I just try to be the best guitar player I can be - not the best female guitar player, not… — Nita Strauss Copy Share Image
Our band was different. We were still playing rock 'n' roll, but we had an entirely different sound: just one guitar, but… — Dave Clark Copy Share Image
I used to play the drums. When I was 11 I got my first professional job, I played drums in a cabary… — Francis Dunnery Copy Share Image
We didn't have much money when I was younger, so I had to collect Coke bottles and cash them in and get… — Gary Rossington Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how many times I've had a friend tell me, in this tender and discreet voice, 'It's just you… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with… — Donald Dunn Copy Share Image
I had some sense of my voice on my own, but playing guitar is so technical and so that really intimidated me,… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image