At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem,… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Yeah, Jody [Porter] left. He's a great guitar player. We have a guy named Phil Hurley who is going to go out… — Adam Schlesinger Copy Share Image
Joe Walsh is somebody who... he's a writer, obviously, and he's a singer-songwriter, whatever, but at the end of the day, when… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
Everything I do starts on an acoustic guitar, with basically, me sitting around in the dark trying to write a song. — Everlast Copy Share Image
I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That's why I got my music degree. I wanted… — Luis Fonsi 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
The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't… — Nancy Wilson 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
“I may not have written the song, but I could add my story to it. Everyone out there could. That was what… — Tara Kelly Copy Share Image
I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to… — Ronnie Wood Copy Share Image
But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass… — Colin Hanks Copy Share Image
I have noticed lots more girls are coming up to me and saying, 'Hey, I started the guitar!' — Ellie Rowsell 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
I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows. — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
When you're a guitar teacher, you teach people for a few years, and you become comrades after a while. Because everybody eventually… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar, — Jimmie Davis Copy Share Image
I'd love to be able to draw or play guitar or dance. All three at the same time - that's the talent… — Owen King Copy Share Image
The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings. — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
Bottom line, Eliza— you’re my home and my family, and I don’t want to lose you. I could lose everything else, and… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
If you go to Japan, they're still buying vinyl, and they want the education. They know who's playing on what tracks from… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,'… — Rachel Boston Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived. — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
It was 2002, we all got guitars for Christmas and started playing in my garage that summer, rehearsed there and in a… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
When I was much younger I tried to play guitar and bass first. Drums were just the easiest thing for me to… — Gina Schock Copy Share Image
It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different. — Robin Trower 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
I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch… — Carly Craig Copy Share Image
Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive. — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They… — Tom Curren Copy Share Image
The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven,… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I… — The Edge Copy Share Image
Always continue to perform no matter what or where the activity is: local theater, regional theater, local clubs or coffee shops. Continue… — Tony Vincent Copy Share Image
I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and… — Brian May Copy Share Image
My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image