Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they’ll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they’ve owned a guitar for 20 years. – Oscar Isaac
I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that. – Oscar Isaac
What is Norah Jones’ style? Is it just the albums that we’ve heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style? – Talib Kweli
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. – Steve Vai
I’ve actually been playing music ever since I was a young a kid. I got my first guitar when I was about 7 or 8 years old, so I’ve always been doing music. – Shane Harper
A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that’s true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there’s something about the guitar – the range of possibilities is much broader. – The Edge
Bowie’s ‘Hunky Dory’ influenced me. ‘Ziggy Stardust’ influenced Johnny Ramone a lot, especially his guitar parts. – Tommy Ramone
Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is. – Trey Anastasio
I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing. – Thurston Moore
It’s that kind of in-born music thing – I could pick up the guitar and play something. It’s not something I consciously do. – Ziggy Marley
I’m not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I’ll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it’s rare. – Scott Ian
There’s no continuity in videos… you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can’t throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar – you have to film a scene. – Tamra Davis
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time. – Syd Barrett
I’m supportive of women, absolutely, and it’s so gratifying to have girls come up and say, ‘I’m really inspired by your guitar playing.’ I mean no disrespect to the sisterhood, but musically I feel more drawn to things like Dirty Projectors, the National and Grizzly Bear. – St. Vincent
I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one. – Taylor Swift
I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven. – Tom Perrotta
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. – Slash
It’s always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs. – Wes Borland
I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you’re behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don’t really perform because you can’t. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing. – Stevie Nicks
I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that’s what I’d end up doing. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven’t put it down since. – Slash
I drive my family nuts because when I watch something on TV, I’m likely to watch it with a bass guitar. But I don’t plug it in! – Steve Capus