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“I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.”

Way Different Messages Guitar Different Ways Amazed

Author:Les Paul

“I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do.”

Years Kind Stills Play Kids Wanted Guitar Limitation Manufacturing Jem

Author:Steve Vai

“It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.”

Known Guitar Bars Aliens Relate Classical Guitar

Author:Steve Vai

“The Majesty guitar symbolizes the very reason why I am so proud to be a Music Man artist. I had the idea for this guitar a couple of years ago but it is because of their innovative spirit and dedication to the art of guitar building that it is now a reality. I am so grateful that I am able to collaborate with the best guitar company on the planet and so incredibly proud that together we have created what is to me, the perfect musical instrument for guitar players. I really hope you get a chance to play one and am confident that you will feel the same!”

“But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.”

Humans Heart Body Voice Perfect Guitar Your Body Guts Companion Vibrations Human Voice Strumming

Author:Jason Mraz

“I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.”

Writing Hard My Own Guitar Crap Guitarist

Author:Siobhan Fahey

“I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.”

Wells Bigs Four Fans Style Notes Guitar Strings Halls Chords

Author:Gary Burton

“For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.”

Knows I Can Walks Rooms Color Theory Goes On Tables Guitar Hearing Variety

Author:John Frusciante

“My brother plays guitar and base and writes. His name is Chase Ryan.”

Writing Play Names Brother Guitar My Brother

Author:Debby Ryan

“People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guitar was frowned upon. When rock n' roll first started, no one took it seriously.”

People Ifs Firsts Rocks Century Guitar Rock N Roll 18th Century Playing Guitar

Author:Moby

“I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.”

Years Guitar

Author:Mac Miller

“Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.”

Together Song Guitar Excuse Solo Guitar Solos

Author:J Mascis

“It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.”

Kind Play Ability Harder Guitar Edges

Author:J Mascis

“EverTune is, without a doubt, the most important advance in guitar playing since the electric tuner. Using the EverTune, both onstage and in the studio, has completely changed the game. It's almost impossible to explain how amazing this innovation is. Pure magic!”

Important Games Doubt Impossible Magic Changed Pure Innovation Guitar Studios Electric Guitar Playing

Author:Ben Weinman

“After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.”

Years Wells Littles Play Desire Three Exercise Guitar Broke Three Years Broke Up

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.”

People Stills Play Break Media Guitar Radio Pops Alternatives Constructs Pop Music Coverage Break Out Radio Plays Media Coverage

Author:Kristin Hersh

“I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.”

Play Song Guitar Tracy

Author:Madeleine Peyroux

“I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar.”

Bits Guitar Bored

Author:Elena Tonra

“One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on an acoustic guitar. You must develop it as a totally different thing.”

People Ifs Trying Different Play Hate One Thing Style Guitar Different Things Electric Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Rory Gallagher

“When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.”

Thinking Knows Men World Way Player Heard Balls Instruments Notes Guitar Fighter Great American Hendrix Ball Players

Author:B. B. King

“I fancy myself as being very good at Guitar Hero. I really don't play any other videogames. I kind of fell in love with Guitar Hero the first time I played it, and went out and bought a system for it.”

Firsts Kind Play Hero First Time Guitar Very Good Fancy Wwe Videogame Guitar Hero

Author:CM Punk

“It's a cocktail-party circuit in D.C., That guy who couldn't master the guitar and get in a band and get laid, he ends up there. Gary Condit make sense to me. He's away from his family, he's in D.C. - if he was a car dealer in the [San Fernando] Valley somewhere out there, he'd be the guy who was trying to get laid by offering you the free undercoating package.”

“I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can imagine from around the country - New Orleans Jazz to Indian flute players, R&B, you name it. I met and became good friends with (blues guitar player) Joe Louis Walker. He was on the show.”

Kind Country Shows Names Forget Imagine Player Mets Roots Jazz Guitar Indian Officials Good Friend New Orleans Guitar Player Walkers Flutes

Author:Scotty Moore

“I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute.”

Stills Kids Lasts Minutes Guitar Insane Unpredictable Things Change Flexible Last Minute

Author:Kate Voegele

“My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.”

Important Play Rocks Guitar Rock N Roll Obscure Changing Your Life

Author:Lou Reed

“I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.”

Ifs Writing Kind Play Certain Song Guitar

Author:Chris Isaak

“Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.”

Records Player Guitar Solo Guitar Player

Author:Richard Hawley

“My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.”

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Author:Jesse Tyler Ferguson

“I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.”

Young Player Crazy Horse Guitar My Favorite Guitar Player Crazy Love Crazy Horse

Author:Juliana Hatfield

“My guitar playing has not developed as much as I think it could because I never practice. I only play when I'm writing or recording or when I'm playing on tour. When I'm sitting around at home, I never play.”

Thinking Writing Play Home Practice Sitting Guitar Sitting Around Guitar Playing

Author:Juliana Hatfield

“I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.”

Years Littles Play Taught Musician Ears Instruments Guitar Piano Hindrance Playing Guitar

Author:Steve Kazee

“The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.”

World Instruments Guitar

Author:Steve Vai

“When I have the opportunity, I want to perform the guitar live for my fans. Please expect that!”

Want Opportunity Fans Please Guitar Snsd

Author:Kim Tae-yeon

“The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.”

World Mind Art Song Objects Blue Guitar

Book:Living by Fiction

Source: Living by Fiction

“The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Moore's guitar on 'Mystery Train.' You're not gonna get that in a computer. You're gonna want a live room, you're gonna wanna bounce the tape, you're gonna want real musicians, in a room, vibin' off of each other.”

Want Real Soul Rooms Records Mystery Computer Musician Train Guitar Warmth Tape Slap Bounce Scotty

Author:Channing Tatum

“My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.”

Years Firsts Song Guitar Older Sister

Author:Tracy Chapman

“I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.”

Stills Use Guitar Guts

Author:Garth Brooks

“My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.”

Mother Dad Guitar Fiddle

Author:Gordie Howe

“Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.”

Writing Play Song Guitar

Author:John Denver

“And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.”

Ifs Done Kids Stuff Taken Effects Building Lessons Guitar Noise Pedals Weird Stuff

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.”

Ifs Whole Break Guitar Strings

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.”

Ifs Knows Feels Should Sound Quality Know How Knowing Keys Instruments Guitar

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.”

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Author:Eddie Van Halen

“I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.”

Kids Young Guitar

Author:Warren Zevon

“I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.”

Enough Play Figures Taught Guitar

Author:Minnie Driver

“I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.”

Done School Bits Sleep Fairs Lays Guitar Holiday Bags Traveled School Days

Author:Jeremy Irons

“In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.”

Littles Ideas Enough Song Guitar Flats Arrangements Nuance Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Graham Parker

“But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.”

Thinking Mean Picks Guitar Versatile

Author:Eric Clapton

“I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them.”

People Feels Hate Asks I Hate Guitar Ask Me Guitar Playing

Author:James Hetfield

“I was in Jacques Brel Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with Jacques Brel doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song.”

Years Song Written One Day Singing Surprise Guitar Actresses Songwriting Broadway

Author:Amanda McBroom

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