Conventional Quote by John Sebastian

A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not…

— Eddie Van Halen

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

— Richard Thompson

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound.…

— Dan Hawkins

... there is still a very strong subculture of people who want to do great things on an instrument, and who are stimulated by…

— Steve Vai

Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.

— Mark White

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments…

— Adrian Grenier

I don't even think whether I play the blues or not, I just play whatever feels right at the moment. I also will use…

— David Gilmour

B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.

— Chris Matthews

Mumford & Sons have really opened up everyone's ears to music with instruments again, acoustic-based music... it's reassuring for people like me who have…

— Ben Howard

I like real instruments, and try to stay from anything that sounds too synthetic.

— Alex Winston

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

— Ezra Koenig

That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like the idea…

— Vince Clarke