Roger McGuinn Quotes

The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.

Roger McGuinn The Byrds

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• Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Guitar

• When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Wife
  • Same
  • Guitar

• I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Cool
  • Travel
  • Guitar

• I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Guitar
  • Now
  • Beatles

• You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.

  

  B. B. King
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Guitar

• I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.

  

  Babyface
  • Write
  • Young
  • Falling

• Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Age
  • Guitar

• My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Alone
  • Play
  • Player

• I took piano lessons when I was really young, like five years old, and I didn't really enjoy that very much. It was kind of too strict. So when I was probably 11 or 12, I started playing guitar and just kind of taught myself.

  

  Washed Out
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Guitar

• Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Good
  • Song
  • Guitar

• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • People
  • Play
  • Guitar

• I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Way
  • Player
  • Guitar

• I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Practice
  • Guitar

• It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • School
  • High
  • Guitar

• A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Time
  • You
  • Guitar

• The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Song
  • Cool
  • Guitar

• I'm always happiest trying new instruments - and honestly enjoy playing, say, the glockenspiel with Radiohead as much as I do the guitar. I think regular touring has forced me to play the guitar more than anything else, which is why I'm probably most confident playing that. And whist I'd be lost if I couldn't play it too, I dislike the totemic worship of the thing... magazines, collectors, and so on. I enjoy struggling with instruments I can't really play.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Play
  • Guitar
  • Instruments

• By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Time
  • Play
  • Guitar

• When you're 20, you can't imagine being 30. When you're 30, you can't imagine being 40. When you're 40, you can't imagine being 100.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Imagine
  • 20
  • 30

• I'm happy doing what I'm doing, and if you have that kind of attitude then everything else from there on is a bonus.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Happy
  • Attitude
  • Bonus

• The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.

  

  Roger McGuinn The Byrds
  • Guitar