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Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than…

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

As human beings we're visual creatures, and it's so easy to play the guitar by looking at it. It's a real challenge to go…

— Paul Gilbert

Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but…

— Gary Lucas

A guitar is something you can hold and love and it's never going to bug you. But here's the secret about the guitar -…

— Les Paul

The guitar is a funny instrument because you have bendable strings and distortion - there's a potential for noise. It is more exposing. Actually…

— John Petrucci

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

— Ziggy Marley

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas…

— Tommy Bolin

When you start running out of things to do on a guitar, you have to find other ways of making music with your instrument.

— Zacky Vengeance

I guess anybody who plays can say that they play guitar, but if you want to be a guitarist, you've got to practice all…

— Jake Pitts

A guitar is so tactile, and when you're playing bends - and bending notes is a big part of my style - there are…

— Joe Bonamassa

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

— Anonymous

I'm not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don't I? That is my characteristic, and it's my identity as…

— Jimmy Page