As my guitar playing dwindled, something else in my music got better. — Jason Becker Copy Share Image
As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player. — Lemmy Copy Share Image
In any moment, I guess we could whip out a guitar and start playing old school. — Kyle Gass Copy Share Image
“Playing the guitar is all very well, John, but you'll never make a living at it.” — John Lennon's aunt Copy Share Image
I wanted a guitar when I was 4 or 5, and I learned how to play guitar by the time I was 6. Just self-taught. — Blackbear Copy Share Image
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time. — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive — Les Paul Copy Share Image
Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct. — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go. — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm… — Pat Martino Copy Share Image
You get some confidence in your songwriting abilities and go for the essentials - guitar, bass, drums, vocals. Those are the basic… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically… — Cory Arcangel Copy Share Image
I have two brothers, and one of them plays the guitar. I actually started playing the guitar because of him. Both of… — Brianna Hildebrand Copy Share Image
I'm a really big fan of Andy McKee - I think he's an amazing acoustic guitar player, and he's taken the torch… — Myles Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily… — Lee Ritenour Copy Share Image
You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
When you play guitar you are drawing a frame around a moment and saying to the listener, 'Here is how I want… — Philip Toshio Sudo Copy Share Image
When I saw Buddy Holly play in 1958, I was there looking for girls. At that age, you want to get laid.… — Motorhead Copy Share Image
One day, I was just fingering around on the keys of a Fender Rhodes piano, and I came up with this little… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
There once was a girl who found herself dead. She peered over the ledge of heaven and saw that back on earth… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
