I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That’s it. – Benjamin Booker
I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren’t long enough, so I took up the guitar. – Antje Traue
I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs. – Adrian Belew
In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures. – Colin Greenwood
My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I’ve named her ‘Dolores,’ and she sings like an operatic menace. – Brendon Urie
It’s been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. – Andy Summers
Guitar music or rock n’ roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it’ll never go away completely. It can’t die because it’s so fundamentally attractive. – Alex Turner
Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time. – Alessia Cara
I just couldn’t take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that’s about all I did at school. – Alvin Lee
Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis. – Andy Gibb
Since I first picked up the violin, I’ve been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin. – Andrew Bird
We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman’s shoes would not really be fair to anybody who had a conscience. – Butch Trucks
I still play that guitar. It’s a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I’ve played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years. – Andy Griffith
I’m pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don’t use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway. – Brian May
I don’t like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don’t play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better. – Ace Frehley
If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I’d never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar. – B. B. King
Anyone who’s got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some ’50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That’s it, really – I’m not a musician, I’m not a singer. – Aaron Johnson
In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform ‘Oh Jean.’ – Billy Boyd
I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article. – Adrian Belew
I’m stoked because no one’s really even seen Bo yet. It took me half the season to get used to not having a guitar wrapped around my neck. So I’m anxious for the fans to see what Bo’s really about. – Bo Bice
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there. – Becky G
Yeah. I’m amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don’t play well at all. I wouldn’t even attempt for a second to play in public. – Ben E. King
Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn’t know no more songs, they’d run out of them. – Brownie McGhee