I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.
Jeff Beck
Related I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable... JEFF BECK Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar. KIRK HAMMETT In 2010, I had been playing guitar for 50 years. LEE RITENOUR I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ ... TOM VERLAINE If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how... EDDIE VAN HALEN I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want t... KAKI KING I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played this guitar on and... ANDY GRIFFITH The first guitar player I saw putting on a show was Guitar Slim - I must've been 13 years old - he c... BUDDY GUY My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an ... TODD RUNDGREN These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual t... ANI DIFRANCO I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not marrie... DAN AUERBACH If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar. KIRK HAMMETT My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guit... JIMMY PAGE My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the gui... JIMMY PAGE My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guita... JIMMY PAGE If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ... B. B. KING There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are p... JOHN FOGERTY My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and ... JERRY GARCIA I know how a guitar player likes a guitar to feel and to sound. Having the right tone is everything. DON MEYERS For me, songwriting is really where it's at. I turn to use the guitar just to help me write the ... MARK KNOPFLER Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, d... BRIAN MAY It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'... IAN WILLIAMS If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth. DAISY BERKOWITZ My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, ... GEORGE BENSON It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the... STEVE VAI I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like. ADRIAN BELEW Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos. JOSH HOMME My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. E... SLASH I like guitar sounds to be a little somber. JOE TROHMAN The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar. ANDY SUMMERS My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me ... GEORGE BENSON I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'... CARLOS SANTANA I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was ... M. WARD Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a pla... GEORGE HARRISON I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and... BOZ SCAGGS Everybody besides my piano player has been with me since the very first day. We were a four-piece ba... THOMAS RHETT When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing... ALEX LIFESON The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You... STEVE VAI Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar. RICK SPRINGFIELD Obviously, I am not going to say which one it is, but it is a guitar that has been around my house f... ERIC CLAPTON When I started writing music on the guitar, it started off very folky because of my limited ability ... KIESZA I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon... RIVERS CUOMO I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to m... ERIC CLAPTON Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to inno... DAN ROSENSWEIG Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country... HUNTER HAYES When Nolan gets on the mandolin and Eric gets on the slide guitar, the sound changes. We have a lot ... LAURENCE KNIGHT All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. An... GUY CLARK Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have. JOE PERRY I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started d... EDDIE VAN HALEN I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic g... DAMON ALBARN Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. ... YUSUF ISLAM Sometimes I will be hearing an orchestra in my head and I'm trying to get that sound to come out on ... BILL FRISELL I thought it was a good way for me to say thanks to him, ... He left me every piece of musical gear ... ALAN YATES People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guita... MOBY In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself s... AUTRE NE VEUT Note to myself - It is time for me to start taking my guitar lessons. One of my neighbor's singing a... AVIJEET DAS The blues for me ? you just feel it. It's one of the easiest forms to play, but very few people can ... RAFAEL MENDEZ I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic ... DAVID GILMOUR I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rathe... RITCHIE BLACKMORE The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit so... FLUME When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar pl... DAVID BYRNE I thought it was a good way for me to say thanks to him, ... He left me every piece of musical gear ... ALAN YATES Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country... HUNTER HAYES For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melo... DWEEZIL ZAPPA I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two... B. B. KING 'Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the gui... AXL ROSE My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, befor... PETE TOWNSHEND The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit so... FLUME Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time. KIRK HAMMETT See, I was nine years old when I saw Elvis on 'Ed Sullivan', and I had to get a guitar the next day.... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..................... JIMI HENDRIX I'm always trying to emulate guitar. Especially when I'm playing the trombone, that's wh... TROMBONE SHORTY I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the ye... ADRIAN BELEW What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, ve... DAN ROSENSWEIG People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. ... MITCHEL MUSSO I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar. DICK DALE I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He'... DHANI HARRISON I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco. MARTIN GARRIX I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar,... DANIEL EK 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 After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bot... APRIL GORNIK I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and ... STEVE VAI Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why... DEYTH BANGER Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar. NIALL HORAN My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cl... DAN AUERBACH What I enjoy about the live experience is getting onstage, being handed a guitar that is in tune, ta... JOHN MAYER When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the ... ANDRES SEGOVIA I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got... KIP WINGER I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. ... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument. ANDY SUMMERS What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ROD STEWART I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Count... CARL WILSON People were just amazed by this guy's guitar virtuosity. JAY SPROUT It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most i... RICHARD D. JAMES When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blow... DICK DALE I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a ... IAN ANDERSON I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. ... SLASH It is something we don't fully understand. Why is it that some people can get better and some people... DR. ROBERTA BOGAEV My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar! IRIS DEMENT I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people. DOC WATSON
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