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Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.

My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes ‘your arrangement’

Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

Link Wray and Gene Vincent.... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.

My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.

I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.

It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife, your husband, your whatever. Paintbrushes, pens, movie cameras, guitars, microphones, typewriters -- these are good things. Weights. These are positive ways, good ways to deal with anger, frustration, alienation, rage. 'Cause all the other ways do nothing but hurt people.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.