#guitar

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. ↗

— Keith Richards

#blues #form #guitar #know #music

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. ↗

— Keith Richards

#bored #broom #get #give #give me

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45. ↗

— Johnny Rivers

#gibson #good #guitar #really

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists. ↗

— Andres Segovia

#circle #composers #guitar #guitarists #i

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician. ↗

— Jeff Cooper

#armed #guitar #handgun #make #makes

I don't really collect guitars. ↗

— Roger McGuinn

#guitars #i #really

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#drawn #existence #footloose #go #grab

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#day #eddie #guitarists #halen #i

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#began #big #big band #charlie #christian

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#chord #desk #did #four #frets