I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs. — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble. — John Entwistle Copy Share Image
My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident. — Dusty Hill Copy Share Image
Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it’s more… — Dave Mustaine Copy Share Image
I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar. — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
I can't try to write a song - songs come out of me. I have to play the guitar and if I… — Shavo Odadjian Copy Share Image
I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored. — Eliot Sumner Copy Share Image
I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
I really enjoy 'festival life,' as it were, and I love the reactions when I bring out my guitar on stage. The… — Labrinth Copy Share Image
I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
Ted Templeman, the producer, and Donn Landee, the engineer, are the same team that signed Van Halen, when they were called Mammoth.… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all… — Barry McGuire Copy Share Image
It is impossible to watch a 'Friends' episode too many times. Phoebe is my favourite character. I used to play her songs… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
That's the way I started playing music: just playing guitar by myself in my room when I was a kid, and exploring… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played… — Grimes Copy Share Image
After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix… — Kirk Hammett Copy Share Image
Bracelets with white symbols?” Michael made the question casual; in fact, he bent his head and concentrated on tuning his guitar, not… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll guitar came from blues guitar. It was the blues guys who first turned the amp up and started whacking… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
I used to go and do some sitting in with Robert Nighthawk when he were playing at the 708 Club in Chicago.… — Junior Wells Copy Share Image
I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me,… — Robby Takac Copy Share Image
I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It's not a big, epic Hollywood score but… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
It's a cocktail-party circuit in D.C., That guy who couldn't master the guitar and get in a band and get laid, he… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
I tell people to listen really closely to the song when they're working out their guitar parts. — Mike Campbell Copy Share Image
...A lot of guitar players get stuck on a person ... before they find out who they really are ... every guitar… — Henry Garza Copy Share Image
I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
Trey Spruance didn't want to tour for ages. And Dean Menta has always been our guitar-roadie during Angel Dust, and I remember… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
I wanted to call it 'Experiment' because it's all kinds of different sounds. We have a bunch of instruments on there that… — Kane Brown Copy Share Image
The lute I use has 10 courses and 19 strings, which is quite a lot of strings and a quite different fingerboard… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
It's funny, I guess when I was growing up, I didn't really think about being an instrumentalist, per se. I didn't think,… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar and when we formed the band; we all said, 'Who's the worst at guitar?' It was obviously me,… — Calum Hood Copy Share Image
One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn't touch a guitar for two years, but when I realized I… — Ronnie Montrose Copy Share Image
I had this weird fetish for making the guitar sound like it wasn't a guitar to try and trick people into actually… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
For guitar players especially, blues is the foundation of rock and roll. You take country music and rock and roll and jazz… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang… — Arthur Darvill Copy Share Image
My favorite way to get into the songwriting process is to get into the studio, and then usually, they play a loop… — Tate McRae Copy Share Image
I've always had to do things my way; I play guitar my way; I've taken myself to the edges of life my… — Slash Copy Share Image