The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish. — George Benson Copy Share Image
My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar. — Johnny Thunders Copy Share Image
If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on… — Nuno Bettencourt Copy Share Image
The electric guitar and its players hold a place of privilege in the annals of rock music. It is the engine, the… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I always knew I was going to make a record called 'The Foundling.' Since I picked up a guitar, I knew it. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
I'm about a 20-handicapper with a guitar. I can only play three songs on my own album. I did the lyrics, not… — John Daly Copy Share Image
I'm a very tough critic of my guitar-playing. Sometimes I don't even want to do it anymore. — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
For the record, Jeff Jarret cannot play guitar. Honky Tonk Man cannot play guitar. Elias? Guitar, piano, harmonica, drums, you name it.… — Elias Copy Share Image
I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
I've really gotten over pedals. I can't keep up with this craze of boutique pedals that make you sound like everything but… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
I just liked music, and I really liked rock guitar. I didn't think I was going to be a rock guitar player,… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
Mumford & Sons have really opened up everyone's ears to music with instruments again, acoustic-based music... it's reassuring for people like me… — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music… — Scotty Moore Copy Share Image
One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to… — Frank Stallone Copy Share Image
First of all, who's your A&R? A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar? But he don't know the meaning of dope,… — GZA 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
With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds. — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
I guess I find it easier to talk when I have a guitar in front of me. — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
