If you’ve got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You’re the superstar. – Krist Novoselic
I’ve always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I’d still be drawing the same pictures… should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same. – Les Claypool
We tune differently, and we use some tricks. There’s just the two of us for much of a concert, so we want a big sound. We do use some guitar effects, distortion and delay. Playing cello with distortion sounds so good. – Luka Sulic
I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn’t know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player. – Rick Derringer
As a musician and a guitar player, I can noodle as well as anybody. But from my background as a session musician, I always try to play what is called for by the lyric and listening to the song. As a writer, that’s what I do, too. – Richie Sambora
What I do now is all my dad’s fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. – Rod Stewart
I feel like something I’ve wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out. – Olivia Holt
I’ve just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I’m just still writing songs and what not. – Phillip Phillips
I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook. – Ryan Tedder
During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in. – Ronnie Dunn
I started playing guitar back in ’56. I was a teenager, and guitars had just come in, and I had a thing for it and got one. Started learning lead breaks from songs, because that was the easiest thing to do at the time. I had the guitar for two years before I learned any chords. Really. – Roger McGuinn
While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I’d see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio. – Robin Trower
I’m basically a keyboard player, so if it’s got a keyboard on it, I’ll give it a shot. I played a lot of organ in the early days. I can make a few chords on guitar, but that’s about it. – Ray Stevens
I’d say it’s harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. – Robin Zander
Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He’s overrated. – Ritchie Blackmore
I tried to emulate my favourite guitar players, the old bluesmen like Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy. I used to sit by the record player and copy Chuck Berry and the Beatles. You can never copy someone completely, so you end up developing your own style. – Ronnie Wood
Bruce’s band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there’s no lead guitar player, for one thing. – Phil Lesh
You have no idea what you’re passionate about until you give it a shot. If I hadn’t been given a guitar or a camera or whatever, I’d be doing something different. – Ryan Lewis
Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar. – Rick Springfield
If you can’t play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker. – Patrick Carney
I didn’t have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them. – Page McConnell
It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they’ve found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge. – Pete Waterman
Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality. – Paul Simonon
Rock guitar has been around for decades now, and there are so many strong traditions, and so much of it is just burned into my fingers. So, nine times out of 10, when I pick up the guitar to jam something, it sounds pretty cliche. – Rivers Cuomo
He made it quite clear that if I didn’t play the role, I would be dead within a week. As you can imagine, the guy who turned down Hagrid would be like the guy who called the Beatles a guitar band. So I couldn’t possibly refuse, really. – Robbie Coltraine