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

I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.
Kirk Hammett

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

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.
Mark Knopfler

I'm not a good guitar player.
Adam Jones

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.
Brian May

Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.
Brian May

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.
Brian May

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
Brian May

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

Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.
Mark White

God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play.
Link Wray

So I started to learn guitar right away.
Piper Perabo

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
Beau Bridges

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
Jam Master Jay

So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.
Lee Ann Womack

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.
Leo Kottke

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.
Duncan Sheik

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.
Cliff Richard

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