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Guitar playing isn't really for everybody. -- Brad Paisley
Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now. -- Dave Navarro
My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. -- John Oates
Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing. -- Lee Ritenour
Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time. -- Kirk Hammett
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was. -- Billy Corgan
Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players. -- Brittany Howard
Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within my own restrictions. -- Pete Townshend
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them. -- James Hetfield
My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice. -- Eric Clapton
The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment. -- Leo Kottke
I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill. -- Bryan White
I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through. -- Brian Setzer
Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band. -- George Thorogood
The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me. -- Arto Lindsay
I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy. -- Eric Clapton
Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like Eddie Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen changed everything; I don't necessarily like everything he did, but he definitely changed everything. -- Buzz Osborne
My guitar playing has not developed as much as I think it could because I never practice. I only play when I'm writing or recording or when I'm playing on tour. When I'm sitting around at home, I never play. -- Juliana Hatfield
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 guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing. -- Dave Mustaine
Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself. -- John Frusciante
Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid. -- Jimmy Page
The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted. -- Jerry Leiber
The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous. -- Robert Smith
I grew up across the street from, you know, the Villarias, which was a great Mexican family there. In fact, there was three houses right across the street from me. So, day and night, I listened to Mexican music, and I'm sure, you know, my guitar playing, singing, writing, whatever, has a lot of Mexican flavor there, but it comes natural. -- Willie Nelson
Playing guitar is a never-finished journey. -- John Fogerty
Playing guitar is not a beauty contest. -- Ernie Isley
Playing guitar is like telling the truth. -- B. B. King
In 2010, I had been playing guitar for 50 years. -- Lee Ritenour
I started playing guitar kind of by accident. -- Ryan Cabrera
A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes -- Victor Wooten
When I was 11 years old, I started playing guitar. -- Wyclef Jean
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old. -- Mac Miller
I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers. -- Tom Chapin
God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play. -- Link Wray
I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do. -- St. Vincent
Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like. -- Jonny Greenwood
Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table. -- Dave Barry
Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out. -- Bert Jansch
Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever. -- Kris Allen
I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at, -- Johnny Winter
So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too. -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing. -- St. Vincent
With music, I'm comfortable singing to people but I'm not that comfortable playing the guitar. -- Bronson Arroyo
My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB. -- John Oates
I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs. -- Dolly Parton
It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana! -- Miyavi
I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar. -- George Thorogood
I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too. -- Randy Houser
I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed. -- Brownie McGhee
When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day. -- Jimmy Page
When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it. -- Dick Dale
When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights. -- John Frusciante
In any moment, I guess we could whip out a guitar and start playing old school. -- Kyle Gass
I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11. -- Janis Ian
When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time. -- Joe Satriani
I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight. -- Ronnie Milsap
Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me. -- Gary Moore
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. -- Leo Kottke
As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment. -- David Rawlings
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar. -- Daisy Berkowitz
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar. -- Daisy Berkowitz
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there. -- Becky G
In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms. -- Don McLean
I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun. -- Bryan Greenberg
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. -- Squarepusher
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. -- Squarepusher
I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar. -- Vivian Campbell
I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar. -- Lola Kirke
Whether I'm making my own record, or playing a guitar part, I want what I do to have an impact. -- Vince Gill
I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life. -- Annie E. Clark
I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him. -- Lucinda Williams
I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth. -- Martin Gore
I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message. -- Les Paul
Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry. -- George Benson
If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon. -- King Khan
Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately. -- Trevor Rabin
It's about the time I was riding my Motorcycle, going down a mountain road at 150 miles an hour, playing my guitar. -- Arlo Guthrie
I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows. -- Buzz Osborne
I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band. -- James Bay
The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start. -- Keith Richards
I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar. -- Fred Frith
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs. -- Zakk Wylde
I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world. -- Paul Reed Smith
Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good. -- Merle Haggard
I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals. -- Mike Gordon
A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that. -- Bill Orcutt
I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking. -- Jordan Gavaris
I started playing heavy-metal guitar because that's what I liked. And then I got into classical guitar because it was so technically complicated. -- Cory Arcangel
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune. -- Pete Seeger
I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar. -- Mick Ronson
It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players. -- Ace Frehley
I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever. -- Jonny Lang
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'd put a lot of work into playing guitar, and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone. -- Brian May
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. -- Ace Frehley
Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but itâ??s more difficult. -- Dave Mustaine
It's a guy thing, playing the guitar. Being a female and trying to go to the same auditions as the guys, it's pretty hard. -- Orianthi
I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it. -- Jimmy Page
I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.' -- Bill Callahan
When I'm playing guitar, I just try and put those words into lyrics and just try a few things. It's all over the place. -- George Ezra
Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter. -- Miranda Lambert
It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words -- Noel Gallagher
I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way. -- Britt Daniel
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. -- Dave Grohl
When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer. -- Richard Pinhas
I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing. -- Joe Satriani
Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many girls playing guitar. -- Lola Kirke
When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid. -- Katie Cassidy
My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put his guitar down, I pick it up. -- David Edwards
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
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. -- Keith Richards
Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie. -- Slash
I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune. -- Shawn Mendes
I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something. -- Tommy Bolin
I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak. -- John Lennon
Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time. -- Joshua Roman
I always looked up to Slash from Guns N' Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the guitar, just going crazy. -- Amber Rose

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