You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal. – Gavin DeGraw
I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before. – Eddie Van Halen
I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything. – Cass McCombs
When I listen to a record, or when I’m making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble. I don’t only listen to the guitar player. – Paul Weller
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it. – Dan Fogelberg
Every now and then, I like to take a break from the visual arts and play a few songs on guitar. I don’t play them for anyone. – Marcel Dzama
You can tune your guitar funky, and something’s gonna come out. There’s no secret to it – either you got it, or you don’t. – Dimebag Darrell
I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I’ll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph. – Evel Knievel
Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing. – Cat Power
I came to New York with two bags, my guitar and my laptop. I set my stuff down and immediately ran to an audition. – Ciara Renee
I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that. – Madeleine Peyroux
I’ve always wanted to smash a guitar over someone’s head. You just can’t do that with a piano. – Elton John
I’m quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I’d write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I’ve had to create my own way of writing, which isn’t typical. Everything’s a big crescendo. – Florence Welch
So, it’s like: I’m an OK singer; I’m an OK guitar player and you put them together and… it’s just OK. – Callie Thorne
My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry and Stray Cats. – Drake Bell
I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles’ faces on it. It would be a collector’s item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine. – Gary Oldman
I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it. – David Edwards
I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar. – Gary Burton
I’ve looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I’m in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword. – Neil Diamond
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. – Eddie Van Halen
If you can’t play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it’s not a song. – Christopher Cross