David Longstreth is one of the great guitar heroes of our generation. — Aaron Dessner Copy Share Image
Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it. — Isaac Hanson Copy Share Image
When I was very young, it was Guns N' Roses and Metallica. I'd play air guitar on my bed. They've been the… — M. Shadows Copy Share Image
Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person. — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I have smaller hands, so it's nice being a littler guy, having a guitar that fits my body type. — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I find it to be an ongoing challenge to keep the guitar from becoming too traditional. — Edge Copy Share Image
I've started to look at guitar playing from more than just a standpoint of using certain modes and techniques. — Jim Root Copy Share Image
I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar. — Fred Frith Copy Share Image
If you can say something special on the guitar, then you're going to perk my ears up. But if you're just gonna… — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
My dad had a guitar that he gave me. I went to Walmart and bought a chord chart and hung it up… — Morgan Wallen Copy Share Image
I started playing mandolin when I was three or four years old because I was too small to be playing guitar. As… — Ashley McBryde Copy Share Image
There are places in the Knobs where well just make stuff up at the end of a song. Maybe we wont end… — Mike Campbell Copy Share Image
I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
The way I write music for other artists is the same way I write music for myself. I'll pick up the guitar,… — Bibi Bourelly Copy Share Image
One very important side of my playing lies in rhythm; I have a very percussive style. It's one I've developed with Dream… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
I love five-string banjo. On an electric guitar, let's say a two-hour show, it starts getting heavy right across the neck and… — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
After Chuck Berry died, it seemed web sites popped up like mushrooms to show where he'd taken the guitar introduction to 'Johnny… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
When I was around 13 or 14, I started getting really into songwriting. And one day, I was rooting through my mum's… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and… — Michael Martin Murphey Copy Share Image
Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music,… — Caleb Landry Jones Copy Share Image
These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
“I firmly believe if you want to be a guitar player, you better start on acoustic and then graduate to electric. Don’t… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
When I was first getting into the guitar, I played it incessantly. I lived it, breathed it, ate it, and slept it.… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar. — Alex Clare Copy Share Image
My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing. — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
