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I first started actually playing guitar when I was eleven years old. I had some neighborhood friends...
DARREN ROBINSON Kane is a band I formed with my best friend Steve Carlson. We just got together and started playing ...
CHRISTIAN KANE I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing t...
CHICK COREA Everybody besides my piano player has been with me since the very first day. We were a four-piece ba...
THOMAS RHETT I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with...
JAMES BAY It was originally billed as acoustic but I think we'll do it as a full band, with somebody playing a...
ADAM SCHLESINGER I thought it was a good way for me to say thanks to him, ... He left me every piece of musical gear ...
ALAN YATES I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g...
SIMON COWELL Essentially we were a rock band playing rock songs but I was able to bring in some much more unusual...
ANDY SUMMERS![]()
A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartr...
CRAIG FERGUSON![]()
Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, ...
FLEA Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't fe...
BILL KREUTZMANN The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical con...
ARTO LINDSAY I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was k...
J. TILLMAN There was James Burton, one of the greatest guitar players around, who played for Elvis years and ye...
BOBBY HATFIELD The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time....
JACK ANTONOFF I thought it was a good way for me to say thanks to him, ... He left me every piece of musical gear ...
ALAN YATES![]()
I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone t...
ANGUS YOUNG The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his si...
SID VICIOUS My friend and I were talking about the band Limp Wrist, and how cool that name is, so we started bou...
LIV BRUCE![]()
My first guitar was like a campfire guitar. And it was left at a house that my family had moved into...
JIMMY PAGE![]()
I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I h...
SCOTT WEILAND The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with hi...
SID VICIOUS Dad started playing when he was 8. I've been playing since I was 4 years old and started writing son...
HENRY GARZA![]()
Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie...
HUNTER HAYES![]()
I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a ...
IAN ANDERSON I was just one of those little guys out there playing. And it's pretty cool to remember that. I was ...
DREW STAFFORD We probably didn't even consider becoming a guitar band again. We used to be a guitar band when we s...
TIM RICE-OXLEY What we devised for The Full Monty was a little sort of odd band full of slightly unusual instrument...
ANNE DUDLEY![]()
After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watchi...
KIRK HAMMETT![]()
My mum had this idea I was going to be this long-haired hippie playing guitar and bought me one when...
LIBERTY ROSS I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar ...
BENJAMIN BOOKER I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then...
OTIS RUSH![]()
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playi...
BILLY CORGAN![]()
I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of th...
BRYAN WHITE![]()
It was, actually. I started playing Dungeons & Dragons the first week it was introduced to the marke...
STEPHEN COLBERT My dad would moonlight back then, ... He'd worked his way through college in a band before he became...
BOB SCHNEIDER When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they ...
WAYNE KRAMER The first guitar player I saw putting on a show was Guitar Slim - I must've been 13 years old - he c...
BUDDY GUY In junior high I just started playing the guitar. I just like music. It's in my family.
CLINT CASTANEDA The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to ...
JONNY GREENWOOD![]()
The difference between our band and others out there is that we're called "The Robert Cray Band" and...
ROBERT CRAY![]()
As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s...
MICHAEL J. FOX In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself s...
AUTRE NE VEUT I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Mar...
DAN AUERBACH I started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12.
DRAKE BELL I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, becau...
ADAM YAUCH The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass,...
RANDY BACHMAN I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like wh...
RIC OCASEK I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
RYAN CABRERA I love playing the guitar.
CHANG CHEN-YUE Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guita...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I started playing music when I was around 10. I always wanted to be in a band, so I started out by p...
DRAKE BELL At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was i...
JAMIE MUIR My dad has been playing guitar basically all his life. He's sort of who got me into rock music.
DYLAN MINNETTE I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mand...
CHORD OVERSTREET![]()
Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11...
BRITTANY HOWARD My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me ...
GEORGE BENSON At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is grea...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON![]()
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutel...
BURT BACHARACH I was in a band called the valentines and they broke up last week.
BON SCOTT I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Count...
CARL WILSON I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. I...
CHORD OVERSTREET When Tim and I moved back to Illinois in 2003, my little brother started playing on bass. It was nic...
ED ANDERSON![]()
When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, ...
TODD RUNDGREN![]()
Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my ...
BRITTANY HOWARD It was a weird recording process for us because it was so disjointed. Donnie was off playing with Dy...
CHUCK MEAD I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to...
JOHN F. KERRY I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio ...
RONNIE MILSAP It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director...
BILLY ECKSTINE![]()
I'm the kind of person who would love to play whenever I felt like, with a band, and it might as...
GEORGE HARRISON As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play sh...
BUZZ OSBORNE In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing ...
TRAVIS BARKER I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.
VIVIAN CAMPBELL![]()
I started playing the guitar when we started filming the pilot to 'Lost in Space,' which was...
BILL MUMY I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love sin...
GEORGE BENSON I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no on...
RACHEL PLATTEN![]()
I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you p...
FRANK IERO Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like E...
BUZZ OSBORNE I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar&#...
SAFFRON BURROWS![]()
I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local st...
FRANK IERO My foundation is acoustic guitar, and it is finger-picking and all of that and sort of an orchestral...
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM![]()
She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of m...
STEPHEN KING![]()
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my gu...
JIMI HENDRIX My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at abou...
CANDIS CAYNE A friend of mine had his own theater company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I c...
DAVID ALAN GRIER I would love to win it again. Boston was a good friend of mine. We were competitors but we were frie...
GENE ANGELILLO![]()
An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in t...
STING![]()
The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period i...
ROBERT SMITH He was popular she was smart, she wore glasses he wore dark shades and played the guitar, she was lo...
DAVID BENTO GUERRA When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his...
VALERIE JUNE When the Box Tops first started out, I couldn't play guitar much at all. Only after we had our first...
ALEX CHILTON I've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's goo...
NORMAN REEDUS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES![]()
I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you kno...
POST MALONE![]()
Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switc...
MATT CAMERON I was out in Shelter Cove playing with (Hillery). I had told him one of our lead guitar players and ...
BRIGETTE BRANNAN They started getting excited and playing with more enthusiasm. We just put it together. We started p...
KURT SIMON![]()
What attracted me to Jimmy Bulger were the various facets of his personality and his humanity becaus...
JOHNNY DEPP
DARREN ROBINSON Kane is a band I formed with my best friend Steve Carlson. We just got together and started playing ...
CHRISTIAN KANE I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing t...
CHICK COREA Everybody besides my piano player has been with me since the very first day. We were a four-piece ba...
THOMAS RHETT I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with...
JAMES BAY It was originally billed as acoustic but I think we'll do it as a full band, with somebody playing a...
ADAM SCHLESINGER I thought it was a good way for me to say thanks to him, ... He left me every piece of musical gear ...
ALAN YATES I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g...
SIMON COWELL Essentially we were a rock band playing rock songs but I was able to bring in some much more unusual...
ANDY SUMMERS
A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartr... CRAIG FERGUSON
Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, ... FLEA Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't fe...
BILL KREUTZMANN The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical con...
ARTO LINDSAY I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was k...
J. TILLMAN There was James Burton, one of the greatest guitar players around, who played for Elvis years and ye...
BOBBY HATFIELD The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time....
JACK ANTONOFF I thought it was a good way for me to say thanks to him, ... He left me every piece of musical gear ...
ALAN YATES
I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone t... ANGUS YOUNG The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his si...
SID VICIOUS My friend and I were talking about the band Limp Wrist, and how cool that name is, so we started bou...
LIV BRUCE
My first guitar was like a campfire guitar. And it was left at a house that my family had moved into... JIMMY PAGE
I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I h... SCOTT WEILAND The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with hi...
SID VICIOUS Dad started playing when he was 8. I've been playing since I was 4 years old and started writing son...
HENRY GARZA
Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie... HUNTER HAYES
I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a ... IAN ANDERSON I was just one of those little guys out there playing. And it's pretty cool to remember that. I was ...
DREW STAFFORD We probably didn't even consider becoming a guitar band again. We used to be a guitar band when we s...
TIM RICE-OXLEY What we devised for The Full Monty was a little sort of odd band full of slightly unusual instrument...
ANNE DUDLEY
After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watchi... KIRK HAMMETT
My mum had this idea I was going to be this long-haired hippie playing guitar and bought me one when... LIBERTY ROSS I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar ...
BENJAMIN BOOKER I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then...
OTIS RUSH
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playi... BILLY CORGAN
I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of th... BRYAN WHITE
It was, actually. I started playing Dungeons & Dragons the first week it was introduced to the marke... STEPHEN COLBERT My dad would moonlight back then, ... He'd worked his way through college in a band before he became...
BOB SCHNEIDER When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they ...
WAYNE KRAMER The first guitar player I saw putting on a show was Guitar Slim - I must've been 13 years old - he c...
BUDDY GUY In junior high I just started playing the guitar. I just like music. It's in my family.
CLINT CASTANEDA The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to ...
JONNY GREENWOOD
The difference between our band and others out there is that we're called "The Robert Cray Band" and... ROBERT CRAY
As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high s... MICHAEL J. FOX In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself s...
AUTRE NE VEUT I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Mar...
DAN AUERBACH I started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12.
DRAKE BELL I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, becau...
ADAM YAUCH The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass,...
RANDY BACHMAN I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like wh...
RIC OCASEK I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
RYAN CABRERA I love playing the guitar.
CHANG CHEN-YUE Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guita...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA I started playing music when I was around 10. I always wanted to be in a band, so I started out by p...
DRAKE BELL At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was i...
JAMIE MUIR My dad has been playing guitar basically all his life. He's sort of who got me into rock music.
DYLAN MINNETTE I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mand...
CHORD OVERSTREET
Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11... BRITTANY HOWARD My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me ...
GEORGE BENSON At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is grea...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON
I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutel... BURT BACHARACH I was in a band called the valentines and they broke up last week.
BON SCOTT I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Count...
CARL WILSON I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. I...
CHORD OVERSTREET When Tim and I moved back to Illinois in 2003, my little brother started playing on bass. It was nic...
ED ANDERSON
When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, ... TODD RUNDGREN
Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my ... BRITTANY HOWARD It was a weird recording process for us because it was so disjointed. Donnie was off playing with Dy...
CHUCK MEAD I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to...
JOHN F. KERRY I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio ...
RONNIE MILSAP It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director...
BILLY ECKSTINE
I'm the kind of person who would love to play whenever I felt like, with a band, and it might as... GEORGE HARRISON As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play sh...
BUZZ OSBORNE In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing ...
TRAVIS BARKER I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.
VIVIAN CAMPBELL
I started playing the guitar when we started filming the pilot to 'Lost in Space,' which was... BILL MUMY I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love sin...
GEORGE BENSON I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no on...
RACHEL PLATTEN
I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you p... FRANK IERO Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like E...
BUZZ OSBORNE I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar&#...
SAFFRON BURROWS
I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local st... FRANK IERO My foundation is acoustic guitar, and it is finger-picking and all of that and sort of an orchestral...
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of m... STEPHEN KING
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my gu... JIMI HENDRIX My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at abou...
CANDIS CAYNE A friend of mine had his own theater company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I c...
DAVID ALAN GRIER I would love to win it again. Boston was a good friend of mine. We were competitors but we were frie...
GENE ANGELILLO
An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in t... STING
The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period i... ROBERT SMITH He was popular she was smart, she wore glasses he wore dark shades and played the guitar, she was lo...
DAVID BENTO GUERRA When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his...
VALERIE JUNE When the Box Tops first started out, I couldn't play guitar much at all. Only after we had our first...
ALEX CHILTON I've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's goo...
NORMAN REEDUS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you kno... POST MALONE
Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switc... MATT CAMERON I was out in Shelter Cove playing with (Hillery). I had told him one of our lead guitar players and ...
BRIGETTE BRANNAN They started getting excited and playing with more enthusiasm. We just put it together. We started p...
KURT SIMON
What attracted me to Jimmy Bulger were the various facets of his personality and his humanity becaus... JOHNNY DEPP
I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw m... 
I think you have different soulmates throughout your life. 
Personally, I've always loved the curvy look. 
I didn't love school. 
There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians. 
Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised. 
I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't ha... 
I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a pac... 
She concedes that she's the one she pleases. 
I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disagg... 
What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If I'm in a good mood, it&... 
A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to... 
I have an amazing husband who is a strong man of God. He is very dedicated to me and our family. 
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Everyone's been on a ramen noodle diet once or twice. 
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To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the ... 
For a quick, healthy meal that's also fun for kids, I serve fish tacos: soft tortillas, lettuce,... 
Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, ush... 