Boxes Quote by Lightnin' Hopkins

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

— Stone Gossard

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing…

— Ludwig Goransson

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar.

— Maybelle Carter

I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.

— Antje Traue

I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor…

— Steve Young

I always packed around this guitar my mother gave me before I left home, I would write songs and play them for my buddies…

— Ryan Bingham

After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking…

— Kirk Hammett

My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished.

— Carrie Brownstein

I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar,

— Elena Tonra

I got a toy guitar at a fundraiser and was trying to write songs with it that were ridiculous. After a week, my parents…

— Soccer Mommy

I had a guy who went out of way to help me get started and somehow saw something in me. I couldn't get my…

— Steve Young