Day Quote by John Prine

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

— Stacy London

I have a sloppy style of playing guitar. A percussive style. Unique in fact.

— Sixto Rodriguez

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

— Les Paul

I have problems with guitars, I hammer away at it sometimes and I also do little intimate picks, I'm always looking at new guitars…

— Ben Howard

I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for…

— Pete Townshend

You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I play with my hands a lot…

— James Vincent McMorrow

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area…

— Richard Thompson

I've played guitar in so many different styles, and I want to revisit them all.

— Jimmy Page

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s…

— Tommy Emmanuel

If I played something incorrectly, I whipped myself mercilessly. Whenever I made a mistake, I made sure that I would never allow myself to…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

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

— Anonymous

I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away…

— Suzanne Vega