I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.
Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.
I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.
I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.
Slash can take three notes and make a beautiful solo. And that's one thing I've always really admired about his guitar playing. I'm a huge Slash fan all around.
I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.
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.
Tonight I just need my guitar.
The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.
I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.
I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.
With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.
Back when I was in high school, I came out onstage with my guitar and had four guys playing behind me. We were just playing a dance, but I was standing in front of an audience rocking out. I'm still rocking out like when I was a kid. I haven't changed.
Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing
My first instrument was actually the trombone, but that didn't last long. Soon I was playing guitar in bands from the time I was 11 or 12.
I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive
I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels.