Difference Quote by Ben Howard

Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.

— Kaki King

Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.

— Sam Amidon

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

— Joni Mitchell

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

— Sheryl Crow

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

— Pete Seeger

There's a different kind of ownership relationship with it when you've spent those hours, when you've tuned a guitar multiple times and it becomes…

— Monica Barbaro

A lot of people don't realize that guitar playing is very much like singing or playing any of the glissando-type instruments - you have…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

My favorite thing about guitar, and the thing that always drew me to it when I was first learning to play it, was those…

— Charlie Worsham

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries…

— J Mascis

I have about 10 or 12 guitars, some of which are in non-standard tunings. Mostly I play a clone of my 59 Les Paul.…

— Mike Campbell

I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.

— Ritchie Blackmore

I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one…

— Leo Kottke