“The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.” FirstsGuitarStrings Author:Roger McGuinn
“I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.” YearsFirstsThreeParentFourFitSixInstrumentsSevenGuitarEightFour YearsPlaying Guitar Author:Chord Overstreet
“I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.” WorldFirstsLittlesPlayWaterMy OwnSawsFirst TimeInspiredGuitarStayingMy SisterAmusementJimmyRogerMuddy Author:Otis Rush
“Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.” FirstsLongArtistWonderGoneInfluenceHavensLong TimeGuitarMy FavoriteReally LongFavorite Artist Author:Jonny Lang
“I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.” WorldFirstsPlayMy FamilyGuitarWideProfessionFamily And Friends Author:Don McLean
“And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.” PeopleMenFirstsHumansMayTwoWarMomentsFormLeftGenerationsObjectsParticularGuitarCrowdsPopsJustifyGatheringCravingSlidesSurveillanceEmbodimentLoneWoodstockMonterey Book:A Visit From the Goon Squad Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.” FirstsSelfTaughtGuitarOctoberSelf Taught Author:Ernie Isley
“My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band had another blacksmith shop in Abbott, but he liked me. All he had was horns and drums, and I was set up over there with my little guitar with no amps or nothing. I would play as loud as I wanted to, and nobody could hear me.” MenFirstsLittlesPlayWantedJobsBandGuitarLoudShopsOld ManHornsBohemianPolkaBlacksmiths Author:Willie Nelson
“It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.” FirstsPlayWantedChoicesPlayerGuitarSingersGuitar Player Author:Ryan Adams
“Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.” FirstsMovingSongRecordsGuitarProducersBassConstantly Moving Author:Noel Gallagher
“My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.” FirstsLongLastsBandInstrumentsGuitarPlaying GuitarTrombone Author:Dave Grohl
“Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.” IfsFirstsKidsWantedSchoolDadBandGuitarBeing Cool Author:Julian Lennon