Acoustics Quote by Dan Auerbach

When I was 15, I got super into Eric Clapton. My father took notice of this and got me a guitar for Christmas.

— Elias

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of…

— Joe Satriani

I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper.…

— Donald Dunn

My dad had an acoustic guitar, and I remember I was like 12 when I started learning to play chords.

— Ellie Rowsell

I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he played. When…

— Dave Davies

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime,…

— Gary Clark, Jr

I started playing guitar back in '56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing for it…

— Roger McGuinn

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso…

— Andres Segovia

I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV.…

— Carl Wilson

My grandpa was a country singer, and I started learning guitar from him, just at the kitchen table when I was younger, and I…

— Trixie Mattel

Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle - my…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

My dad had a couple guitars around, but he never played guitar. He just liked having them. I always would play around with it,…

— Everlast