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“As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.”

“As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.”

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Author:Boz Scaggs

“I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.”

Wells Voice Player Rocks Jazz Guitar Rock And Roll Guitar Player Classical Guitar

Author:Boz Scaggs

“Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.”

Kind Littles Play Bigs Guy Stars Nice College Lonely Guitar Freak Misunderstood

Author:Alex Chilton

“There' something about universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.”

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Author:Jim Croce

“I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like.”

Ifs Thinking Use My Own Guitar Folks Contemporary Versions Traditional

Author:Cat Stevens

“I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings”

Writing Play Beats Guitar Strings Guitar Strings

Author:Macklemore

“Its just something Ive always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.”

Firsts Done South Guitar Texas Mexican

Author:Guy Clark

“All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.”

Firsts Kind Form Enjoy Guitar Guts Strings Nylon Guitar Strings

Author:Guy Clark

“I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living.”

Knows Building Couple Guitar Outcomes Grandkids

Author:Guy Clark

“A man can’t have too many guitars or too many shotguns.”

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Author:Robert Earl Keen

“When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.”

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Author:Gabor Szabo

“So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.”

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Author:John Entwistle

“What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence”

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Author:Geezer Butler

“I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.”

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Author:Glenn Hughes

“I play guitar because it lets me dream out loud.”

Play Dream Let Me Guitar Loud

Author:Michael Hedges

“Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.”

People Young Player Becoming Music Is Female Meetings Males Guitar Becoming More Guitar Player Blues Music

Author:Mick Taylor

“I play the piano a lot at home, I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage... I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.”

Thinking Writing Play Home Song Chance Stage Guitar Piano

Author:Mick Taylor

“I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.”

Guitar Folds Really Cool Acoustics Plugs Headphones

Author:Daniel Ek

“I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.”

Wanted Song Guitar Singers Cowboy Neat Hank Williams

Author:Dick Dale

“It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.”

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Author:Gary Burton

“I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.”

Trying Made Next Records Five Four Police Guitar Keyboards Trios

Author:Andy Summers

“For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.”

Writing Instruments Guitar Great Writing Synthesizers

Author:Andy Summers

“Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel According to the Blues, Gary brings his vocation as a New Testament teacher together with his passion for the blues and gives the reader scholarly knowledge and wise insight.”

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Author:Steve Stockman

“After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.”

Want Boys Guitar Guitarist

Author:Robyn Hitchcock

“I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.”

Two Helping Instruments Inspired Guitar Piano Help Me Back And Forth

Author:Sean Lennon

“With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.”

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Author:Jeff Ament

“I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.”

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Author:Andy Griffith

“It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.”

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Author:Ziggy Marley

“I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.”

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Author:Kimbra

“The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.”

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

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Author:Tommy Shaw

“I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.”

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Author:Frank Gambale

“I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.”

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Author:Debra Wilson

“Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”

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Author:Miles Davis

“In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform Oh Jean.”

Ifs Facts Wanted Party Guitar

Author:Billy Boyd

“It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.”

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Author:Andy Partridge

“Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but a guitar and conquers the world. And we've done that again, and again, and again – Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters.”

“Women are my hobby... every man needs something to keep his hands busy, and I don't have a guitar like Eddie and Michael, or some drums to bash like Alex, so I have to find some friends.”

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Author:Diamond D

“With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.”

Would Be Able Felt Sound Guitar Musicianship

Book:Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy

Source: Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy

“As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.”

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Author:Sam Palladio

“A guitar is more than just a sound box... it is part of your soul.”

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Author:Manuel Velazquez

“Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming... ...clouds of educated gnat-notes.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.”

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Author:Dick Dale

“That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.”

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Author:Ben Harper

“If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's eye, right? Your mind has an ear too. It's a kind of listening, but it's not using your ears to listen. It's listening with your inner ear, and that's what you want to translate onto the guitar.”

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Author:Steve Vai

“Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately.”

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Author:Graham Nash

“It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.”

Ifs Rooms Minutes Brother Guitar Throat Guitarist Brother Love

Author:Alex Van Halen

“I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.”

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Author:John Fogerty

“I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead”

Ifs Writing Play Would Be Band Guitar Schedules

Author:John Frusciante

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