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In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly. -- Stuart Townsend
Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women. -- Glenn Frey
An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life. -- Sting
What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence. -- Geezer Butler
Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer. -- Sissy Spacek
My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar. -- Duncan Sheik
My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer. -- George Benson
I look for things that are left of center, something you've only seen your whole life, but never heard. Hit it! With a stick! I have a guitar made out of a 2x4 that I bought in Cleveland. -- Tom Waits
I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee. -- Lucy Hale
The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records. -- Eddie Van Halen
I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life. -- Don McLean
I've always enjoyed singing and can't recall a time in my life where I wasn't singing. I'm most grateful for the strength I have in that department. I have a lot of bad habits on the guitar which limits my playing ability. But I get a little better each year. -- Jason Mraz
I was in 'Jacques Brel' Off-Broadway for many years, so I've always been a singing actress, but the songwriting was a complete surprise. I had never written a song in my life. We were on the road with 'Jacques Brel' doing the national tour, and I picked up a guitar one day and I wrote a song. -- Amanda McBroom
I've seen kids turn their lives around. It's usually a kid who's outside of the team-sport world, or maybe has a darker personality or doesn't fit in. Skateboarding ends up being something they latch onto. It sounds hokey, but finding a focus on something - whether it's skateboard or playing your guitar - can be life changing. -- Jeff Ament
The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Moore's guitar on 'Mystery Train.' You're not gonna get that in a computer. You're gonna want a live room, you're gonna wanna bounce the tape, you're gonna want real musicians, in a room, vibin' off of each other. -- Channing Tatum
I don't think I understood guitar rock as well as I probably should have. I don't think I understood bands like Led Zeppelin. In their era, everyone had such a regard for them because of them ushering in rock n' roll and this larger-than-life lifestyle. But then they had these songs that would just not stop. I didn't fully get it. -- Pete Wentz
I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings -- Macklemore
My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half. -- Huddie William Ledbetter
It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life. -- Terrence Howard
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
If you can strike the cord of consistency on the guitar of life, the world will dance to your music of greatness -- Osho Samuel Adetunji
New year is a day, to tune the rhythm called SOUL, with best chords called EXPERIENCES and play the guitar called LIFE. -- Vikrmn
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
His heart was like a battered guitar; worn and scuffed from a life spentout on the road, but still capableof bringing forth beautiful music. -- John Mark Green
I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life. -- John C. Reilly
My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar. -- Ace Frehley
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
My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar. -- Lou Reed
I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me. -- Maia Mitchell
Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life. -- Slash
Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since. -- Johnny Marr
Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since. -- Johnny Marr
That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life. -- Victoria Jackson
As far as guitar goes, it's weird to have such a challenging activity in my life for so long - I love it. It kicks my ass every day. -- Vernon Reid
What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence -- Geezer Butler
One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it. -- Rory Gallagher

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