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If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

I've got holes in my guitar.

The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.

When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I'd rather play with.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

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.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword.