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I started playing guitar kind of by accident. — Ryan Cabrera

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

Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing ... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry. — George Benson

I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old. — Mac Miller

I'm a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him. — Tom Scholz

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table. — Dave Barry

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight. — Ronnie Milsap

When I first started playing guitar, everyone was playing Chuck Berry and B.B. King licks. I decided I was going to find other avenues of expression. — Robby Krieger

When I was 11 years old, I started playing guitar. — Wyclef Jean

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

Life is like a guitar and the combination of chords are called moments. Playing them is the called living the moments. — Vikrmn

I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since. — DJ Ashba

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 both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time. — Kirk Hammett

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'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them. — James Young

Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it's more difficult. — Dave Mustaine

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too. — Stevie Ray Vaughan

My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven. — Yngwie Malmsteen

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too. — Randy Houser

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 first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life. — Annie E. Clark

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody. — Brad Paisley

During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in. — Ronnie Dunn

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

I don't mind sitting at home playing the guitar for a year as long as I'm making good films. — Tom Holland

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band. — James Bay

When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing. — Drake Bell

With music, I'm comfortable singing to people but I'm not that comfortable playing the guitar. — Bronson Arroyo

I like to play music and sleep. But most of all, I love to work ... I don't really play sports, so I like to spend my time playing guitar or piano. — Drake Bell

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing. — St. Vincent

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18. — Lukas Haas

Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school, I haven't even touched a guitar. — Mike Tucker

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

A child playing air-guitar plays no wrong notes. — Victor L. Wooten

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

I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message. — Les Paul

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers. — Tom Chapin

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

I'm still like an excited kid playing guitar in front of the bedroom mirror. — James Bay

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs. — Dolly Parton

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. — Leo Kottke

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 — Brett Morgen

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

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 always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar. — Rainbow Rowell

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

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 never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar. — Vivian Campbell

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows. — Buzz Osborne

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

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

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B. — John Oates

I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do. — St. Vincent

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

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 love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at, — Johnny Winter

I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar. — Dave Holland

It was cool at the rock camp - girls could just be themselves and they could be silly, they could roll around on the floor playing guitar. — Courtney Barnett

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth. — Martin Gore

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

A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us. — Johnny Ramone

I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar. — George Thorogood

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

God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play. — Link Wray

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

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

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

The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls. — Rodney Atkins

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there. — Becky G

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. — Tom Jenkinson

I started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12. — Drake Bell

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar. — Daisy Berkowitz

It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana! — Miyavi

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

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar. — Fred Frith

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

Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my favorite guitar players. — Brittany Howard

Life is like playing a guitar and meditation is like music. Small session of rehearsals daily won't show much but would make you ROCK in the long run. — Vikrmn

Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing. — Eddie Vedder

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school. — Don McLean

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11. — Janis Ian

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was. — Billy Corgan

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

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

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest. — Ernie Isley

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey. — John Fogerty

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

I love playing the guitar. — Chang Chen-yue

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

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

My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason ... but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them. — David Pajo

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

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now. — Dave Navarro

This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out ... — Ryan Adams

Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me. — Gary Moore

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed. — Brownie McGhee

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

I bad a piano long before I bad a guitar, and the practice I got just playing those three chords in a basic 12-bar blues song was very important. — Mark Knopfler