Fingerboard Quote by Tal Farlow

After playing for 40 years, I've been able to evolve the way I see the fretboard and how I hear the guitar in my head.

— Paul Gilbert

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the…

— Ian Williams

I don't believe that heavy strings make it all that much bigger-sounding. If anything, it can mess up your fingers, and you can get…

— Steve Lukather

I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made…

— B. B. King

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

— Julian Casablancas

Don't be precious about anything-much less a certain guitar sound. There is always another interesting sound or effect just waiting to be discovered.

— Robin Guthrie

It's a balance between getting the right string gauge that's thick enough where it sound good, and not rubber bands - but not too…

— John Petrucci

When you're playing guitar, it's the tiny little nuances that make the difference. For me, obviously, tunings is a huge one.

— Ben Howard

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors…

— Andres Segovia

Whatever the aspect, I've tried to provide clear witness to what I've found, to resonate well enough with the harmonics of the place that…

— Frank Gohlke

When we first started, in the early Eighties, we had some crappy guitars - Japanese knockoffs that wouldn't hold standard tuning. Later, we'd shove…

— Lee Ranaldo

From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean,…

— Jimmy Page