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If you're learning a new instrument, have fun ...
I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.
I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes
I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.
Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't *you* want to play guitar?
I play blues old-timey style.
When you think about where guitar playing is going today ... : it's going everywhere at the same time.
It feels like guitarists are samurais. You know, I'm playing a guitar, instead of a katana!
The guitar is like a cuisine and you can't expect people to eat the same thing all the time.
When we make those guitars we make tons of prototypes, I have all those. And once a guitar has come out there's all different versions and colours and woods and I have all those. There's hundreds of them.
I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!
I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.
If I were to have my own brand of guitars, they would have to be industructable.
The Bassbone is just what I have been looking for ... I can maintain the integrity of two instruments on stage or in the studio with control over the balance and keep my high standards for my low notes!
Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.
I've got holes in my guitar.
I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.
The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.
I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.
I've played everything but a harp.
I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.
Well, harpsichord is kind of a big guitar, isn't it? I mean, it is plucked, after all.
The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.
I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
I play really bad punk rock guitar.
I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.
I'm learning on the guitar all the time.
A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.
I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.
I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.
The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guitar means something special, you're bound to do great things with it.
The guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive
The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.
This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world.
Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.
Death is never more than a breath away from the act of playing music. Each note on a guitar represents a small curve: birth, life, and death-and then you start over.
Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.
The Springboard. Denning
I play a bunch of instruments.
I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.
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.
I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.
The bottom string is tuned to an open G.
To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.
Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up
I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin.
My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.
I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.
Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming ... clouds of educated gnat-notes.
But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.
It's cool to play the guitar, but to me it's even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and forward, to manipulate it with a turntable. Guitars can't do that themselves.
I was a guitar player first off.
If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.
I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.
I guess anybody who plays can say that they play guitar, but if you want to be a guitarist, you've got to practice all the time and you've got to get good at it. It's more than just having one and playing it.
Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.
I've played everything but the harp.
I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.
The bassist -- always the bassist.
But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.
A good player can make any guitar sound good.
I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.
It's a balance between getting the right string gauge that's thick enough where it sound good, and not rubber bands - but not too thick where your hands start to get real tired.
I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.
I love playing the guitar.
All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.
My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
strings, piano and brass she often
Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.
My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.
Practice, practice, practice. Practice until you get a guitar welt on your chest ... if it makes you feel good, don't stop until you see the blood from your fingers. Then you'll know you're on to something!
I've always loved Ibanez guitars, and in particular 7 strings.
I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.
Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin
I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.
If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.
The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.
You've got to learn your instrument.
It is fun to smash guitars.
The Bassbone works great in the studio or on the live stage. Throw it in your gig bag and take it wherever you go.
Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.
The [guitar is the] instrument most complete and richest in its harmonic and polyphonic possibilities.
The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.
I want a thousand guitars ...
I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players, another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.
I had this idea ... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar ... the one that was made from an old fireplace.
Really young kids are into guitars.
If you can't play as good or as fast as me, just give up, sell your guitar on eBay and kill yourself.
I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.
My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
I bought me a guitar about a year ago, learned how to play in a day or so.
A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
Your mallet or your stick goes through the instrument, the sound goes out and then wherever the sound goes nobody knows, you know.
I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
The guitar chose me.
Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.