“We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out.” — Decca Recording Co. rejecting The Beatles in 1962 Copy Share Image
We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole. — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now. — Brian May Copy Share Image
To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do. — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music. — Juanes Copy Share Image
If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going. — Wes Montgomery Copy Share Image
I'm a guitar player. I've carved out my own style of guitar music, so I don't look for inspiration with playing guitar. — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
That is the music that I have always wanted to play: real, genuine guitar music. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
...Everyone has their own sound, and if you're heard enough, folks will come to recognize it. Style however, is a different thing.… — Chet Atkins 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
Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess,… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
Some specialist guitar music is not of the highest intellectual calibre, so I must make it sound as though it is. If… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
In America sometimes I'll play to a full black audience of young people, they will be really getting into this super-aggressive guitar… — Corinne Bailey Rae 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
... I played 'Eruption' two times for the record, and we kept the one that seemed to flow ... there's a mistake… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
Navigating with a partner makes it half as difficult. We keep each other in check. It's not like she [Angie Marr] was… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Argentina is a very interesting culture because unlike Europe and the US, they did not abandon rock and roll music, they did… — Gordon Raphael Copy Share Image
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
Since around 6 or 7, I've been taking classes in piano, guitar, music theory. — Skip Marley Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was listening to a lot of Metallica, a lot of instrumental guitar music because I started out as a… — Ludwig Goransson Copy Share Image
My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around. — Kris Allen Copy Share Image
I do think there is a valid reason that Segovia commissioned the composers he did. He was very much a pioneer, and… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
If you have a good riff with a vocal as well, then it becomes a devastating song. That's why people love riff-rock:… — Joe Bonamassa 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 don't feel any extra pressure fronting the band - I understand that there are less women in guitar music so it… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords… — Autre Ne Veut Copy Share Image
But when I was 12 or 13, I found the acoustic guitar and got into guitar music ultimately, like Black Motorcycle Club,… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
There's a need for music that has urgency and emotional honesty. That's why people are reintroducing themselves to guitar music - that… — Mura Masa Copy Share Image
I always liked really heavy guitar music, but didn't like the long-winded songs that went with it. And I always liked pop… — Kim Shattuck Copy Share Image