You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies. - Libba Bray I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar. - Jackson Browne I started playing guitar kind of by accident. - Ryan Cabrera I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar. - Vivian Campbell I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers. - Tom Chapin Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it. - Bootsy Collins You know, I like playing music and playing guit...

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing. - Billie Joe Armstrong When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer. - Eddy Arnold Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me. - Chet Atkins In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform 'Oh Jean.' - Billy Boyd When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar. - Michelle Branch And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time. - Beau Bridges We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar. - Maybelle Carter Everything in the worl...

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers. - Tom Chapin I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine. - Gary Oldman 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 During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it. - Neal Schon 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

My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records. - Chris Isaak I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers. - Jam Master Jay

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment. - Leo Kottke I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing. - Billie Joe Armstrong I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing. - Dave Mustaine The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me. - Arto Lindsay Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now. - Dave Navarro Let me explain something about guitar playing. Eve...

I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up. - George Benson In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players. - Ritchie Blackmore 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 Have I mentioned how hot Michael is? Hot, hot, hot. I mean, all guitar players are crushworthy - it's like it's issued with the talent - but I've been noticing lately that he is total Hottie McHottie of Hotland. Not that I could tell him that. Luckily, he is a boy. Hence, too dense to figure out why I'm staring at his ass. - Rachel Caine The voices on the record, that was trying...

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom. - Adam Jones Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet. - Ted Nugent I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces. - Ted Nugent I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar. - Ted Nugent

Abroad, she discovered that the transformation of music into noise was a planetary process by which mankind was entering the historical phase of total ugliness. The total ugliness to come had made itself felt first as omnipresent acoustical ugliness: cars, motorcycles, electric guitars, drills, loudspeakers, sirens. The omnipresence of visual ugliness would soon follow. - Milan Kundera The Transformation of music into noise was a planetary process by which mankind was entering the historical phase of total ugliness. The total ugliness to come had made itself felt first as omnipresent acoustical ugliness: cars, motorcycles, electric guitars, drills, loudspeakers, sirens. The omnipresence of visual ugliness would soon follow. - Milan Kundera My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way. - Dan Fogelberg Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection. - Dan Fogelberg I went to my friend...

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. - Mike Figgis My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings. - Andrew Garfield I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it. - Colin Greenwood What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four. - Faye Kellerman I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock. - Mick Mars It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. - Stevie Nicks I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not wr...

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked. - Gerard Butler I looked up from that other place and saw Dave staring through the glass. I thought: That guy is a little gratitude, world peace, a new acoustic guitar, a bass guitar and hands that play like Flea, and the single "Break Your Heart" all at once. He smiled and waved. I'm sick of staring at what I want, I thought. I'd do anything to hold it in my hands. - Cath Crowley I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me. - John Entwistle So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble. - John Entwistle But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye. - Colin H...

At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time. - Gregg Allman For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar. - Marc Almond This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well. - Joan Armatrading I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing. - Billie Joe Armstrong I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 20...