Acoustic guitar Quote by Bill Orcutt

When I first started playing guitar, so many people told me I couldn't do this or couldn't do that. But I kept at it…

— Shawn Mendes

One of the reasons I took up the guitar was I didn't want to speak to anybody. I really felt uncomfortable speaking to people,…

— Ritchie Blackmore

I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't really know…

— Rooney Mara

Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it’s more difficult.

— Dave Mustaine

We're very much perfectionists, so when we're putting on a huge show and want to play to the best of ability, we rehearse intensely.…

— Synyster Gates

It's weird - I can listen to a guitar player or a rock record over and over again and really enjoy whatever the guitarist…

— Kevin Drumm

I can plunk out enough chords to write a song, but I'm completely afraid to play guitar in front of other people. It's a…

— Mandy Moore

I hate to do anything halfway so I leave the guitar alone.

— Henry Mancini

When I feel like improvising, I always improvise on the guitar, never on the lute. It's as natural to me as breathing.

— Julian Bream

When I play guitar, it's automatic. I don't try to do something; I just do it. And it's already so ingrained in what I…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by four people.…

— John Scofield

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

— Ziggy Marley