I find that I get nervous before I play. Even sound checks can give me anxiety and screw with my mind. But… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing… — Arto Lindsay Copy Share Image
No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I play the piano, drums, little bit of bass, guitar. I can play harmonica, a little bit of the ukulele. Pretty much… — Chord Overstreet Copy Share Image
And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
Lindsey [Buckingham] and I went up to Aspen and we went to somebody's incredible house and they had a piano and I… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed… — Saffron Burrows Copy Share Image
I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord,… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
What I've done from the very beginning is play everything with extreme accuracy. I never said to myself, 'Okay, if I put… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
When I started off in Wales, I sang and accompanied myself with guitar in the '50s. And then I got a band… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies.… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
I got a Magic Sam record, 'West Side Soul,' and that just ruined me. His voice, pure power, and then his guitar… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
I don't know why you're making the poor girl play with you," Peter said. "You're going to completely slaughter her." "Well, I… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections.… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar,… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
I feel in Spain they kill the art instinct. The education system is really bad, and they've got to change because in… — Juancho Hernangomez Copy Share Image
People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel it from the heart. It… — Lightnin' Hopkins Copy Share Image
One of the things I really like about West African guitar playing is the way it makes harmony linear. They're really spelling… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
My earliest musical memory was getting to watch my dad play drums in a local band. He's a banker by trade, but… — Charlie Worsham Copy Share Image
I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the… — Johnny Winter Copy Share Image
I found myself in a meeting on my 13th birthday, which I really had no idea the enormity of, but I was… — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
I was going out dancing in clubs around New York, and that helped create 'Supermassive Black Hole.' Franz Ferdinand would have done… — Matt Bellamy Copy Share Image
There's a lot of players I look up to, and I hope that I can be a role model to young female… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
The idea of old world instruments mixed with sci-fi, futuristic lyrics, playing baroque guitar on a song about a robot boy and… — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry… — Michael Bamberger Copy Share Image
I was on the road with my buddy Alex - he's my guitar player - and we watched the movie 'Click' by… — Kane Brown Copy Share Image
You could say Iggy and the Stooges were garage. You could say the Kinks helped start heavy metal with that guitar sound… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
I discovered flamenco when I was 14, before I even got involved with jazz music. I was so crazy about flamenco music.… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The… — Ed Sheeran Copy Share Image
I feel weird talking about it, because how can I, as the guitar player of Slipknot, sit here and say, 'Oh, I… — Jim Root Copy Share Image
My engineer on the 'Life is Too $hort' album was Al Eaton. Al Eaton had a studio called One Little Indian Studios,… — Too Short Copy Share Image
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