My guitar sound pretty much came from discovering there was reverb on my little practice amp and really loving the mood it… — Romy Madley Croft Copy Share Image
And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!'… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
In my opinion, Slash is probably one of the last of the iconic guitar players carrying the torch of what it's really… — Joey Kramer Copy Share Image
Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
Most punk rock bands just have a guitar, bass and drums. The Descendents, the Ramones, you name 'em, it's just how it's… — Chad Gilbert Copy Share Image
By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Looping isn't an effect: it's your playing, only more of it and, if you hang with it, it'll uncover previously hidden facets… — David Torn Copy Share Image
Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar.… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
I'd like to do a song that I wrote today about our government's increasing infringement on our right to privacy, but the… — Dan Piraro Copy Share Image
It's weird. All I want is to play my guitar when I am on a movie set. But then when I am… — Shane Harper Copy Share Image
A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
I often use dropped D or C - I even go all the way down to A. What can be really cool… — Rickey Medlocke Copy Share Image
I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of… — James Taylor 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
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
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
I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a… — Dee Dee Ramone Copy Share Image
You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the drums... You only notice the guitar when it's not… — Freddie Green Copy Share Image
I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs. — Adrian Belew Copy Share Image
Being a drummer definitely influences how I play guitar. And then piano influences drumming and vice versa. — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast. — Brian May Copy Share Image
I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something. — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a pastor. I was going to be a youth pastor. I mean, I play guitar; I like to… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar. — Vivian Campbell Copy Share Image
I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a… — Don Johnson Copy Share Image
As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs. — James Bay Copy Share Image
I tend to like the traditional sound: three-part harmonies, guitar, and piano. I mean, a well-played guitar is a joy forever... or… — Christine McVie Copy Share Image