Culture Quote by Kevin Eubanks

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

Yeah, I'd always wanted to do a song with finger-picked, nylon-string guitar.

— Rostam Batmanglij

To get a feel for the right-hand picking technique, you have to let the pick 'fall' from string to string as if you were…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

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

Some people play steel string beautifully, but I'm not exactly a world-class picker.

— Lou Barlow

After a while I thought it didn't make any sense to use a pick. It's kind of like typing with one finger on each…

— Kevin Eubanks

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

— Bill Nighy

Ask any guitar player - it's hard to feed yourself when you're picking for a living.

— J. J. Cale

Finger-picking, in general, is a hypnotic thing. I feel like I'm more A.D.D. all the time, so the music has to be hypnotic.

— Kurt Vile

There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.

— Jason Reeves

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

— Lou Doillon

Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole

— Keith Richards