#guitar

In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#culture #everyone #find #fingers #get

James Brown is the reason I play guitar. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#guitar #i #james #james brown #play

I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#find #guitarist #hard #i #my own

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#between #birthday #father #give #give me

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#bruce #definitely #guitar #i #influence

The guitar chose me. ↗

— Charlie Byrd

#guitar #me

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#both #country #different #different styles #electric

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle. ↗

— Guy Clark

#fiddle #good #great #great writer #guitar

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#guitar #more #much #music #nobody

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice. ↗

— Julian Cope

#every #get #guitar #i #now