Always trying Quote by Daniel Rossen

I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on…

— Eddie Van Halen

The harmonic effects produced unconsciously by our guitarists are one of the miracles of natural art.

— Manuel de Falla

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made…

— Eric Clapton

I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't…

— Jeff Beck

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

— Anonymous

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

— Adrian Belew

One of the things I really like about West African guitar playing is the way it makes harmony linear. They're really spelling things out…

— David Longstreth

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

— Dave Navarro

When I started writing music on the guitar, it started off very folky because of my limited ability to play. It was slow, soft…

— Kiesza

Don't be precious about anything-much less a certain guitar sound. There is always another interesting sound or effect just waiting to be discovered.

— Robin Guthrie

I don't consider myself a skilled enough instrumentalist to be able to create the atmosphere that I want with just my guitar by myself.

— Thalia Zedek

Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside…

— Joni Mitchell