#guitar

He made it quite clear that if I didn't play the role, I would be dead within a week. As you can imagine, the guy who turned down Hagrid would be like the guy who called the Beatles a guitar band. So I couldn't possibly refuse, really. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#beatles #called #clear #dead #down

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching. ↗

— Gary Burton

#constantly #guitar #guitar player #heard #keeps

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#crappy #doing #early #encouraged #first

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work. ↗

— Chris Cornell

#did #ever #expect #go #guitar

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#beginning #completely #contribute #done #good

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power. ↗

— John Fogerty

#doing #eddy #good #guitar #had

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#chords #everything #except #few #guitar

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

#eighties #guitar #guitar players #nineties #oriented

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

#any #bored #completely #different #direction

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that. ↗

— Jonny Lang

#awhile #back #been #favorite #first