When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months. – John Oates
My dad played a little bit of piano and guitar, but not that professionally. I saw him play, and I said, ‘I want to play. I want to try this instrument.’ – Joey Alexander
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. – Krist Novoselic
In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks. – Kevin Eubanks
The thing with One Direction songs is that you can probably break them all down to an acoustic guitar and vocal. – Jamie Lawson
When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you’re a guitar player pursuing a big powerful sound. I mean, no one ever forgets their first Marshall amp. – Kirk Hammett
People do ask, ‘Are you going to embellish this stuff?’ I wouldn’t change any of my guitar parts. – Joey Santiago
I didn’t want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race. – Kirk Hammett
Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that’s not what I call rock. – Little Richard
Even though there are some great keyboard players on the album, there are a number of songs with no keyboard on them and the backing is all guitar oriented. This is first time I’ve ever done this actually. – Lee Ritenour
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I’m attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He’s usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it’s strange. – Megan Fox
I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion. – Jackie DeShannon
As far as I’m concerned, I’m just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing. – Les Paul
Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder – I haven’t gone back in a really long time and really listened to them – my first guitar influences. It’s been awhile since I revisited that. – Jonny Lang
If you play the guitar, you’ve got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you’re limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra. – Jools Holland
I’ve probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I’ve gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever. – Jonny Lang
The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing like the human voice. We couldn’t do what we do without the classical training. It’s a hard instrument to play. There are no frets, and it takes finesse and technique to play. – Luka Sulic
I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don’t do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there’s a whole magic there. – Jeff Beck
I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time. – Lita Ford
I’ve played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I’m mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute… Just not well. – Kat Dennings