80s Quote by Tom Rush

I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.

— Johnny Depp

Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a…

— George Benson

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

— Slash

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living

— Lyle Lovett

I guess that somehow I've survived as a professional guitar player. I've made it 16 years now and I feel like I'm just getting…

— Monte Pittman

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

— Dr. John

I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted…

— Rokia Traore

In 2010, I had been playing guitar for 50 years.

— Lee Ritenour

I didn't start really playing the guitar till I was about seventeen, and I never really had those formative years are where like I…

— Ryan Bingham

My ambition was just to be able to play guitar.

— Angus Young

I started to play the guitar for a couple of years, which was fun. I still bring it out once in a while, could…

— Dirk Nowitzki

Playing guitar was a calling, but I never realized that it was going to be a career. It was just something I did out…

— Jose Feliciano