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“I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.”

Stills Play Guitar Piano

Author:Michael Storm

“I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.”

Writing Play Age Wanted Song Taught Guitar Borrowed

Author:Adrian Belew

“James Brown is the reason I play guitar.”

Reason Play Guitar Brown

Author:Kevin Eubanks

“God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.”

Play Guitar Rock N Roll

Author:Link Wray

“It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.”

Wells Play Song Fun Band Guitar Folks Singers

Author:Barry McGuire

“Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.”

Dream Guitar Eric Guitarist

Author:Carole King

“Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.”

Sound Band Approach Guitar Traditional Locks Bass Guitarist Methodology Lock Up Playing Bass

Author:Matt Cameron

“I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.”

Law President Training Guitar University Lawyer Firm Secretary Bass Guitarist Glasgow Law Firms

Author:Gerard Butler

“I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.”

Way Mean Easy Pieces Written Guitar Enjoyed Solo Guitarist

Author:Marc Ribot

“In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.”

Thinking Play Player Jazz Guitar Compliment Bass Drummer Guitarist Pianist Bass Players Compliments You Thinking Ahead Bass Guitar Playing Bass

Author:David Amram

“I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.”

Way Guitar Compliment Songwriters Contributing Guitarist Lowes

Author:Dave Edmunds

“Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.”

Firsts Lines Band Members Benefits Originals Charity Guitar Sunday Concerts Ads Drummer Guitarist

Author:Peter Tork

“I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.”

Guitar

Author:Mark Knopfler

“While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune.”

Play Feelings Song Listening Originals Western Guitar Instance Tunes Swings Captured

Author:Mark Knopfler

“I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've started to try and write more traditionally, but for whatever reason, I tend toward trying to find something that sounds more like a pattern to me.”

Thinking Writing Trying May Reason Sound Guitar Patterns Rhythm Flaws Unusual

Author:Dave Matthews

“What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.”

Want Made Play Wanted America Painting Exciting Wings Guitar Concerts

Author:Alan Licht

“Looping isn't an effect: it's your playing, only more of it and, if you hang with it, it'll uncover previously hidden facets from the body of your music. Remember: the original source of any loop is whatever your sound is, at the moment of input.”

Ifs Moments Body Remember Sound Effects Source Originals Guitar Input Facets Loops

Author:David Torn

“Never having thought of writing for the guitar, I asked Julian Bream for a chart which would explain what the guitar could do. I managed to write some rather pretty pieces for him, except that the first six notes of the first piece all need to be played on open strings. So when he begins to play the audience will probably think he's tuning the bloody thing up!”

Thinking Needs Writing Firsts Play Audience Pieces Six Notes Guitar Strings Bloody Tuning

Author:William Walton

“Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!”

Degrees Guitar Strings Discord

Author:William Shakespeare

“Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?”

Matter Heard Guitar Singers Electric Violin Abomination Electric Guitar

Author:Andres Segovia

“My guitar, I sing of thee 'Tis with thee that I decoy And ensnare enchantingly the ladies I enjoy.”

Enjoy Guitar Thee

Author:Pierre de Ronsard

“A guitar has moonlight in it.”

Guitar Moonlight

Book:Three by Cain: Serenade, Love's Lovely Counterfeit, The Butterfly

Source: Three by Cain: Serenade, Love's Lovely Counterfeit, The Butterfly

“Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!”

Three Wife Guitar My Wife

Book:Big Bill blues

Source: Big Bill blues

“I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels.”

Harmony Constant Guitar Companion

Author:Niccolo Paganini

“(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.”

My Own Effort Teacher Guitar Thanks Pupils

Author:Andres Segovia

“Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.”

Play Praying Picks Guitar Yesterday Knees

Author:Pete Townshend

“Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.”

Wells Guitar

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“There's just no stopping those girls with guitars.”

Girl Guitar Stopping

Author:Wynonna Judd

“Tonight I just need my guitar.”

Needs Guitar Tonight

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“But you make me sing like a guitar humming . . .”

Guitar Humming

Author:Neil Diamond

“He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.”

Play Guitar Bells

Author:Chuck Berry

“My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.”

Music Is Guitar Hanging On Cadillacs Hillbilly

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“I want a thousand guitars . . .”

Want Thousand Guitar

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.”

Hands Music Guitar

Author:George Harrison

“I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on”

Music Forever Instruments Grateful Guitar Wave Forever Grateful Wave Of Life

Author:Nathan East

“That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.”

Stills Faces Bits Music Havens Infinite Guitar Woods Staring

Author:Jeff Beck

“I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.”

Want Play Able Brain Music Guitar

Author:Brian May

“I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon.”

I Can Music Guitar Miles Afternoon

Author:Steve Lukather

“It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.”

Stills Happens Difficult Chance Forget Music Audience Pieces Quiet Happenings Guitar

Author:Steve Morse

“So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.”

Feels Light Challenges Music Findings Guitar Melody

Author:Steve Vai

“Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.”

Way Made Real Term Music Records Jazz Guitar Melody Impress Chords Trust Me Progression Chic

Author:Nile Rodgers

“But I also think that once you've found stuff that works, stop reading forums, stop reading reviews and just get out there and play.”

Thinking Play Reading Found Stuff Music Guitar Reviews Forums

Author:Guthrie Govan

“I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.”

Littles Becoming Guitar Folks Possession Lovely Prize Festivals Acoustics Cambridge Acoustic Guitar

Author:Graham Coxon

“On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.”

Real Reason Keys Guitar Electric Minors Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Electric Guitar

Author:Tommy Shaw

“This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.”

Wells Done Together Three Band Guitar Electric Acoustics Dvds Acoustic Guitar

Author:Joan Armatrading

“I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for.”

Lines Records Plans Written Materials Areas Guitar Albums Intense California Southern Acoustics Soundtracks Moody Southern California

Author:Ronnie Montrose

“So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.”

Thinking Would Be Moving My Own Attention Records Feet Materials Assuming Guitar Being The Best Village Acoustics Best Place Acoustic Guitar Harmonicas Greenwich Greenwich Village

Author:Steve Forbert

“I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.”

Play Used Stuff Guitar Folks Electric Joints Bass Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Electric Guitar

Author:Mark Knopfler

“There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.”

Country Guy White Offers Guitar I Realized Slides Acoustics White Guys Acoustic Guitar

Author:Rick Derringer

“As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that's what I do, too.”

Trying Wells I Can Play Song Player Listening Musician Guitar Backgrounds Session Guitar Player Playing Guitar Noodles

Author:Richie Sambora

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