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.
I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.
I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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.
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.
My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.
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.
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.
I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.
You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
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.
Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.
The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.