Building Quote by Eddie Van Halen

I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.

— David Bromberg

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to…

— Chris Cornell

I wanted to learn how to play guitar so I could smash it up and burn it. I was only a little kid, so…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I didn't even learn to play guitar until the movie 'Walk Hard,' which is probably fortunate because maybe I would have pursued it, and…

— Matt Besser

I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was…

— Brad Paisley

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

— Syd Barrett

When I was 14, I bought myself a cheap electric guitar and tried to teach myself.

— Himesh Patel

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

— Stone Gossard

I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how to play…

— Mitch Hedberg

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

My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar…

— Jason Aldean

I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.

— John C. Reilly