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I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar. -- Joni Mitchell
I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes. -- Otis Rush
I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well. -- Charley Pride
I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune. -- Cameron Monaghan
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting. -- Sheryl Crow
Rock stars should be able to tune their own guitars, apply their own eyeliner, and pick out their own leather pants. -- Shawn Amos
The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs. -- Brittany Howard
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'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway. -- Ritchie Blackmore
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 had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes. -- Ritchie Blackmore
I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part. -- Lee Ritenour
I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing. -- Alex Lifeson
We tune differently, and we use some tricks. There's just the two of us for much of a concert, so we want a big sound. We do use some guitar effects, distortion and delay. Playing cello with distortion sounds so good. -- Luka Sulic
There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?' -- James Bay
One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D tuning, and of course, also being a guitar player, it's one of the songs that I really like the riff on it. -- Chad Channing
I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man! -- Ken Hensley
When you're doing a TV show, it's not like you just shoot for six weeks and you're in an editing room with all of your footage. It's like a guitar or a car, you have to fine tune things. You stop doing what's not working, you work on what is working and you add things that do work. -- Chris Pratt
My favorite thing about guitar, and the thing that always drew me to it when I was first learning to play it, was those moments when you think you know what it might sound like, but you don't, and then you hit it, and it's a total surprise. You hear it with really fresh ears. Alternate tunings, for me, they give that back. -- Charlie Worsham
We had a music teacher in sixth grade, and I saw her tune her guitar. I said, 'Whoa. There's a certain way to do this.' I bought a packet of strings - some of mine were broken - and had her tune it for me. For a while, I just kept it like that. But I got the Internet finally, when I was 14, and started learning. -- Brittany Howard
Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places. -- Sam Amidon

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