If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I’m just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I’ll have a song in an hour. – Kina Grannis
When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn’t go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7. – Les Paul
I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody. – Kenny Chesney
I’ve actually had a melody on my guitar since the day I learned how to play it, back when I was 7. And for some reason I can’t add lyrics to it. – Miley Cyrus
Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar. – John Fahey
I quite like to sing, actually – just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it’s a form of tranquility. – Jack O’Connell
I’m like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms. – Moby
Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn’t find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn’t bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar. – Leo Kottke
Owning a handgun doesn’t make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician. – Jeff Cooper
The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick. – Kelly Jones
When Tom Morello picks up the guitar, I’m sure what he sees is totally different from what I do, but I love the way he plays. – Joe Perry
I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part. – Lee Ritenour
Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties. – Kirk Hammett
It really shocked me just to hear of the fans’ response to ‘St. Anger’ not having guitar solos. – Kirk Hammett
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. – Leo Kottke
When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that’s how I really started explaining my point of view. – Katy Perry
A cello can sound like so many instruments, but it’s only one, you know, like a guitar; it has percussive qualities. It can sing like the violin, you know, like a voice. – Luka Sulic
I actually love woodworking. I’m just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I’m a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking. – Jordan Gavaris
Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You’re out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn’t sound anything like what you expect! – Jonathan Richman
When I was nine years old, I started playing guitar, and I took classical guitar lessons and studied music theory. And played jazz for a while. And then when I was around fourteen years old, I discovered punk rock. And so I then tried to unlearn everything I had learned in classical music and jazz so I could play in punk rock bands. – Moby
If you don’t know the blues… there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. – Keith Richards
‘Cruise Control’ was the first track me and Wiz Khalifa ever did. I made the beat on that, and I played guitar on it. – Mac Miller