#guitar

There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#acoustic guitar #blues #country #guitar #guys

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something. ↗

— Tommy Bolin

#guitar #i #i think #lot #play

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me. ↗

— John Fahey

#being #dispassionate #explain #greatest #guitarists

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar. ↗

— Michelle Branch

#bad day #day #guitar #having #i

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar. ↗

— John Fahey

#anybody #began #guitar #hand #i

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law. ↗

— David Byrne

#bands #crap #decide #given #going

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself. ↗

— Tom Chapin

#backstage #believe #both #canadian #festival

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

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