#guitar

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards. ↗

— Andy Summers

#compete #guitar #hard #keyboards #serious

Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that. ↗

— Graham Nash

#audience #basic #because #comes #connected

Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately. ↗

— Graham Nash

#bought #brought #guitars #i #immediately

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#bryant #far #go #guitars #i

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord. ↗

— Jerry Reed

#compositions #feel #full #good #good lord

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world. ↗

— Otis Rush

#around #day #every #every day #first

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar. ↗

— Patti Smith

#guitar #i #i can #intuitive #musician

There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#guitarists #i #know #many #older

Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together. ↗

— Daniel Smith

#acoustic guitar #alone #family #figure #guitar

Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#frustrated #guitar #i #like #play