Play Quote by Ricky Skaggs

When I was 12 years old I discovered Bill Monroe and my dad got me a mandolin.

— Marty Stuart

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

— John Fogerty

You know there's this really strange mystique about Simon and Garfunkel, when they use the amazing mandolin and all the percussive stuff. It sometimes…

— KT Tunstall

My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.

— Petra Haden

Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.

— Keith Moon

When they invented the mandolin, it was as if they were trying to come up with the least efficient means of extracting noise from…

— Chris Thile

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.

— Page McConnell

There was a lot of camaraderie among the bands. I remember a lot of times when I'd be driving up Laurel Canyon and pass…

— June Millington

Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before. And…

— Al Kooper

First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.

— Ron Barber

There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them

— Tommy Shaw

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that…

— Michael Stipe