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“Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.”

Giving Play Funny Stage Give Me Guitar Auditoriums

Author:Eric Clapton

“If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.”

Ifs Funny Hours Inspiring Guitar Waking Guitarist

Author:Frank Zappa

“The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.”

Sound Comfortable Guitar Heavy Hairstyles

Author:Neal Schon

“I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.”

People Player Guitar Like Me Bass Guitarist Bass Players Bass Guitar

Author:John Entwistle

“Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.”

Love Trying Different Guy Turns Guitar

Author:Bobby Womack

“Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.”

Writing Mind Song Left Guitar Opening

Author:Roy Wood

“So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.”

Thinking Wells Long Music Guitar Versions Solo Making Time New Music Guitar Solos

Author:Lee Ann Womack

“Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.”

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Author:Paul Westerberg

“Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.”

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Author:Dweezil Zappa

“Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.”

Ifs Way Inspirational Said I Can Care Form Used Genius Madness Mad Guitar Don't Care Like Me Used To Be I Don't Care Relatable Guitar Playing

Author:John Lennon

“Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.”

Stars Teach Decided Sick Instruments Guitar Pops Peter Pop Stars

Author:Michael Stipe

“It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.”

Love Believe Made Age Found I Believe Self Love Mets Guitar Folks Made It Sat Festivals Grit Appearing

Author:Tom Chapin

“I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee and we had The Mountain Opry, where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.”

Love Heart Soul Play Age Joy Stage Grew Mountain Grew Up Guitar Get Up Piano What You Love Upbringing Tennessee Doing What You Love Ukulele

Author:Rachel Boston

“I don't recall getting a first guitar.”

Firsts Guitar Recalls

Author:Ronnie Montrose

“There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.”

Trying Guy Sound Player Guitar Boxes These Days Steel Plugging In

Author:John Fogerty

“Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.”

Rocks Fame Guitar Halls Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame

Author:Roger McGuinn

“Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.”

Guy Song Girl Type Band Guitar Average Guitar Playing

Author:George Thorogood

“I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.”

Real School Jobs Guitar Real Jobs Playing Guitar

Author:Vivian Campbell

“Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.”

Used Guitar Crash Chords Overrated

Author:Ritchie Blackmore

“If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.”

Ifs Sound Too Much Guitar

Author:Scott Putesky

“But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.”

Firsts Instruments Guitar My Favorite

Author:Midge Ure

“There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.”

Way Littles Guitar Afternoon Apartment

Author:Steve Forbert

“There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.”

Wanted College Periods Guitar Realised Classical Guitar

Author:Andy Summers

“I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.”

Needed Picks Guitar Steel Amplification

Author:Brownie McGhee

“If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.”

Ifs Feels Study Guitar Sat Vocal

Author:Zakk Wylde

“I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.”

Wanted Instruments Notes Guitar Piano

Author:Leo Kottke

“Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.”

Guitar Rock N Roll Guitar Playing

Author:Brad Paisley

“The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.”

Giving Audience Performances Guitar Entertainment Relief Guitar Playing

Author:Leo Kottke

“I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.”

Ifs Play Wanted One Day Guitar Albums Sat Parks Central Park

Author:Herbie Mann

“I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.”

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Author:Mick Ralphs

“The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.”

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Author:Tony Visconti

“My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.”

Play Used Mother Song Father Sides My Family Guitar Musical Kitchen Temples Grandmother Contests Both Sides My Grandmother Pianist Mother Grandmother

Author:Gloria Estefan

“If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.”

People Ifs Want Song Girl Millions Minutes Please Thousand Ten Kissing Bird Guitar Damn Folds That Girl

Book:Forever

Source: Forever

“I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.”

Thinking Jazz Guitar Guitarist Montgomery

Author:Kevin Eubanks

“At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s not the norm.”

Way Hard School Player Males Guitar Hard Times Norm Guitar Player Ballerina

Author:Orianthi

“I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song”

Song Guitar Stairs One Direction

Author:Will Ferrell

“A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes”

Children Play Air Notes Guitar Children Playing Air Guitar

Author:Victor Wooten

“I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That's how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be a musician.”

People Ifs Thinking Real Play Happens Sports Emotion Records Listening Grew Band Grew Up Musician Guitar Dimensions Superhero Real Emotion

Author:Dave Grohl

“I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.”

Play Guitar

Author:Billy Unger

“I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It's where my heart's at.”

Heart Kind Style My Heart Pages Gun Rose Guitar Eras Jimmy Zeppelins Aerosmith Guns N Roses

Author:Billy Unger

“I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.”

Way Teach Rocks Letting Go Singing Guitar Conventional Playing Guitar

Author:Chris Cornell

“When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar.”

Writing Littles Song Type Guitar Tiny Flats Writing Songs Hallways Recess

Author:Paul Weller

“But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.”

Years Helping Song Roles Skills Guitar Come Up Rhythm I've Learned Melody Vocal

Author:Krist Novoselic

“But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.”

Remember Player Guitar Dozen Bass Guitar Player Dimes

Author:Krist Novoselic

“We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.”

Mean Play Guitar Loud Electric Electric Guitar Guitar Music

Author:Ian MacKaye

“I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.”

Writing Guitar Piano

Author:Norah Jones

“It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.”

Years May Minutes Picks Seven Guitar Pens Coincidence Seven Years Depressants

Author:Adam Ant

“There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.”

Littles Country Play Kids School Used Class Teach Teacher Happened Week College Singing Guitar Little Kid

Author:Mark Knopfler

“Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.”

Used Purpose Guitar

Author:Mark Knopfler

“I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.”

Desire Guitar Collectors

Author:Mark Knopfler

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