Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
As a song-writer I have always written with one instrument - either guitar or piano - because I believe that if a… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
I can't think of a greater guitar icon than someone who has the musical intellect to change what was there before and… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents… — Micky Dolenz Copy Share Image
I've always been an acoustic guitar player, and I've pretty much continued to play acoustic guitar throughout all of the Sonic Youth… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
There are two types of session guitar players. One reads and only plays what the 'dots' say. The other adds that something… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
My dad would always ask, 'How's the money?' but I was never interested. Millions came and went, stolen by the robbers in… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was… — Thurston Moore 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
If you take the riff from the song 'Cowboys From Hell' and really break it down, it's almost a hillbilly guitar riff:… — Vinnie Paul Copy Share Image
Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
Hendrix was a different kind of guitar player. It was like, 'Holy cow, this guy can sing, he can play all this… — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar,… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' [Dangler] basslines and said, "I don't… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
I dreamed of having a Gibson. I had a cheap Kent - you know, a Japanese guitar - and then a Kanora,… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
I only wanted to play the guitar so I could write music. As soon as I learned my first three chords I… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
I've told older friends to pick up the guitar because it's a great way to express yourself. It's not all about making… — Cindy Wilson Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't realize that guitar playing is very much like singing or playing any of the glissando-type instruments -… — Yngwie Malmsteen Copy Share Image
I really just want to be an inspiration. I'm a regular guy, that had a dream, that came from a small town,… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being… — James Iha Copy Share Image
The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or… — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always think, what type of 11th grader would I be if I was still at school? Or if I was home… — Shawn Mendes Copy Share Image
With guitar riffs, we always look for something that 's a little bit special. We've always found that it is harder to… — Angus Young Copy Share Image
I don't let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
Until I was around 12 or 13, I only listened to classical music, mostly Tchaikovsky. But around that age, I started listening… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had… — Hozier Copy Share Image
I don't want to hear from a band that pretty much sounds like another band. Oh I've heared this riff before, or… — Gordon Raphael Copy Share Image
In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars… — Paul Reed Smith Copy Share Image
My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you… — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
I often wonder why girls who do get into music tend to be just singers, or else play the piano. And if… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image