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

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 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 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

Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing. — Taryn Manning

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

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

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

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 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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously. — Tom Curren

I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar. — Ritchie Blackmore

Playing guitar is like telling the truth. — B.B. King

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights. — John Frusciante

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms. — Don McLean

When you think about where guitar playing is going today ... : it's going everywhere at the same time. — Joe Satriani

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing. — Lee Ritenour

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love playing the guitar. — Chang Chen-yue

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