Ends Quote by Junior Brown

Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but…

— Jonathan Richman

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

— Les Paul

... my songs speak for themselves. The musicians who play on them and the way they sound and where they were recorded and the…

— Neil Young

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

— Anonymous

We constantly try to change and stay fresh. We've done a lot of different styles of music: R&B, hip-hop, rock, orchestral. So when people…

— Damon Thomas

It's always a blast playing the new stuff. But I feel like songs, in a way, are never finished. You get to a point…

— Chuck Ragan

The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that.

— Joe Perry

An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.

— Chris Cornell

I'll never forget when I heard Steve Morse and the Dixie Dregs for the first time. I was just blown away, and it changed…

— John Petrucci

I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s…

— Paul Lansky

My songs were always about the tone of voice rather than the words.

— Gil Scott-Heron

When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me.

— Nas