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“As a youngster I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.”

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Author:Johnny Marr

“Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.”

Order Can Do Genius Eternal Highest Singing Guitar Brown Splits

Author:Bill Nighy

“But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.”

Shows Happens Audience Couple Members Clothes Guitar Managers Woodstock Toothbrushes

Author:John Sebastian

“I'm seeing and hearing lots of B to B instruments, and everybody isn't, you know, using them... a lot of these guys are trying to do it on conventional guitars, although that has its own sound, and maybe its okay.”

Knows Trying Guy Sound Seeing Okay Instruments Guitar Hearing Conventional

Author:John Sebastian

“It made me sick - my name's Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On my first guitar I had Boy Blue written - just pathetic. But that was as good as I got at the time.”

Firsts Doe Made Names Water Boys Written Sick Blue Guitar Pathetic Muddy Keith Howlin Wolf

Author:Keith Richards

“When I moved to New York to act I was no good at working restaurants - hosting, waiting, bussing, dishwashing - I wasnt good at any aspect. But I did have a guitar. So I would sing Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard, but you would only hear the chorus because the train comes by every 30 seconds.”

Waiting New York Aspect Moved Train Guitar Restaurants Seconds Chorus

Author:Michael Weatherly

“I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.”

Ends Together Rocks Guitar

Author:Slash

“My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.”

Knows Fans Rocks Huge Dad Guitar My Dad Solo Rock And Roll Guitar Solos

Author:Slash

“I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get together and play.”

Play Together Film Term Watches Band Guitar Mates Get Together

Author:Stephen Mangan

“You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.”

Guitar Get Away Smashing

Author:Lyle Lovett

“The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.”

People Way Bigs Style Band Guitar Best Way Eras

Author:Chuck Berry

“I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.”

Play Bits Guitar Piano Back In The Day Ukulele Playing Piano

Author:Max Schneider

“I'm going to go with ZZ Top -- they're my faves . . . because of the whole thing that they do with the guitars and the old Father Time beards.”

Whole Father Guitar Beard Fave Father Time

Author:Robin Thicke

“To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.”

Whole Song Strong Guitar Track Fuel Hook Rockets Backbone

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“So one time for my disillusioned artists, I hear ya Two times for the kid that air-guitars in the mirror Three times for the 9-to-5-in' bus ridin' dudes And four times for my dreamers, yo I'm just like you That's why I sing for my queens with their own pair of wings My brothers flyin' beside me, drama behind me Mama tried to find me, she inquired emphatically I was in the sky with all these other ghetto kids, defying gravity, uh”

“I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.”

Play Wanted Stage Listening Seven Guitar Violin Uncool

Author:Emun Elliott

“In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.”

I Can Real Play Guitar Real Life

Author:Stuart Townsend

“I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.”

Ideas Guitar Cowboy

Author:Tom Petty

“I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.”

“I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.”

Writing I Can Remember Guitar Playing Guitar

Author:Randy Houser

“I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.”

Ifs Writing I Can Hard Song Turns Effects Rocks Havens Guitar Heavy Strings Metals Vibrations Because I Can Distortion Acoustics Collision Heavy Metal Acoustic Guitar Hard Rock Rock Song

Author:Corey Taylor

“Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.”

Doubt Player Guitar Vans Guitar Player Van Halen

Author:Zakk Wylde

“These days I don't look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I've got no objections to stealing them if that seems like a good idea. I'm sure that I'm still influenced by Mark Knopfler and Eddie Van Halen as well......I can't play like Eddie Van Halen. I wish I could. I sat down to try some of those ideas and can't do it. I don't know if I could ever get any of that stuff together. Sometimes I think I should work at the guitar more.”

“What draws people to the instrument is the love for guitar players that play a certain way. I mean, even though it wasn't intentional, it was hard to avoid copying Eddie Van Halen. He was basically the *bleep* back then.”

People Way Mean Hard Play Certain Player Draws Instruments Guitar Vans Guitar Player Copying Van Halen

Author:Tom Morello

“As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.”

Trying Littles Dresses Guitar Treasure Heels High Heels Suitcases Banjos Ukulele

Author:Valerie June

“And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.”

Play Voice Guitar

Author:Leonard Cohen

“My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.”

Years Firsts Church Instruments Guitar Piano

Author:Chuck Brown

“I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar.”

Years Firsts Saws Havens Couple Guitar Village Portraits Express Yourself

Author:Richie Havens

“In 2010, I had been playing guitar for 50 years.”

Years Guitar Playing Guitar

Author:Lee Ritenour

“To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.”

Player Guitar Singers Guitar Player Gamer

Author:Sammy Hagar

“It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.”

Hard Guy Player Style Guitar Locked Vans Guitar Player Van Halen

Author:Sammy Hagar

“Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.”

Character Might Emotional Particular Personality Picks Guitar Chords Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Neil Diamond

“I started playing guitar when I was in eighth grade, and that led to trying to write songs and trying to figure out how to play in bands. That led to meeting people, and getting into the local punk rock scene, and going to shows. So that was how I really got into the culture of it.”

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Author:Chris McCaughan

“It's important to keep your creative muscle strong and working. My most inspiring method though is just sitting down with an acoustic guitar and coming up with melodies. It's what I've been doing nice I was nine years old.”

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Author:Zella Day

“I grew up in a really rural town, Stratford, Ontario, with 30,000 people. There's a big festival thrown in the town. A lot of people travel from all over the world to see it, and growing up, I actually used to busk on the street. I'd play my guitar, sing, and people would throw money in the case.”

People World Play Bigs Used Cases Growing Up Growing Streets Grew Grew Up Towns Guitar Thrown Festivals Ontario

Author:Justin Bieber

“I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.”

Trouble Fame Guitar Riches

Author:Paul McCartney

“I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.”

Trying Heart Home Car Ready Huge My Heart Guitar Tennessee

Author:Lucy Hale

“A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.”

Persons Instruments Guitar Connected Brutal Extensions

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.”

Months Amount Couple Majors Guitar Steel Breakthrough Bending

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.”

Age Lessons Six Guitar Piano Holland Piano Lesson

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.”

Play Son Guitar My Son Bass Drum And Bass

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.”

Ifs Trying Wanted Guitar Destroyed Bridges Strings Nuts Friction Saddles

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don't know what more I could ask for.”

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Author:Eddie Van Halen

“I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.”

Kind Done Stuff Guitar All Kinds Strings Pulling Tapping Weird Stuff

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.”

Mean Perfect Records One Thing Theory Lessons Ears Guitar Piano Eric

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.”

Knows Feels Energy Player Like You Band Guitar Up To You Bass Guitar Player Microphones Telepathy Bass Players

Author:Scott Weiland

“My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.”

Firsts Guitar

Author:Johnny Ramistella

“It means a lot that fans feel connected to us and care about us, and that means the world, because that's what we want. We don't want them to feel like we're unattainable because we're just like them. We're all normal kids but somehow we got lucky when we picked up a guitar.”

World Want Feels Mean Care Kids Fans Lucky Normal Guitar Connected Unattainable

Author:Taylor York

“Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey... it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.”

Want Trying Reason Honest Messages Picks Guitar Being Honest Nonsense Chicks

Author:Gene Simmons

“A guitar is something you can hold and love and it's never going to bug you. But here's the secret about the guitar - it's defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know.”

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Author:Les Paul

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