#guitar

We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly. ↗

— Pat Mastelotto

#buddies #converse #create #develop #enjoy

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else. ↗

— Brian May

#excitement #grit #guitar #kind #nothing

I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them. ↗

— Page McConnell

#bands #growing #growing up #guitar #i

Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. ↗

— Roger McGuinn

#guitar #hall #rock #roll

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#became #culture #guitar #icon #mostly

A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts. ↗

— Wes Montgomery

#carries #coming #cuts #expecting #go

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