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David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard
I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.
I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.
If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.
When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.
I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
I tended to favour the piano over the guitar because it stays in one place, which is what I like to do.
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it
B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.
I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.
The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.
If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars bar.
By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
I started harmonica at the age of four, and when I was 12 I started the guitar. Then I played at school.
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.
I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.
I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.
The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women
The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.
About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.
When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well.
So many bands are like, 'I'm real because I'm dirty.' If you have money for guitars, you can afford soap.
I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.
Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.
Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.
I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.
I think the furthest I ever got was Guitar Hero. If I could start a band like that, I think I could do it.
A Guitar Store Is The Only Place In The Known Universe Where A Guy Will Allow Himself To Shop Like A Woman
I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.
I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.
I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.
I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time
Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.