Classical guitar Quote by Cory Arcangel

My background in music is classical - I did graduate school in music. At that time, I was studying composition, but I was studying…

— Bryce Dessner

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to…

— Alex Lifeson

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never…

— Kip Winger

I started playing guitar because of instrumental guitar music.

— Nita Strauss

Growing up, I was listening to a lot of Metallica, a lot of instrumental guitar music because I started out as a guitar player.

— Ludwig Goransson

When I was 9, I got guitar lessons in my school, just classical guitar. I didn't really like it much. Nowadays, I appreciate classical…

— Declan McKenna

I started playing guitar when I was 12, and I started getting into more metal, like Maiden and Metallica... Of course, as I kind…

— John Petrucci

I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.

— Anna Ternheim

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

— St. Vincent

I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at,

— Johnny Winter

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.

— Ace Frehley

I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is,…

— Florence Welch