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This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model.

If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

Larry Carlton is an incredibly versatile guitarist who has been a major force for guitar for many years. He is easily recognizable - all you have to do is hear him once and from that point on you'll be a fan, just like me. It gives me great pleasure to extend congratulations to Larry on his 2011 George Benson Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations !

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

Booker T. Jones sounds more pithy and forceful than ever on “Potato Hole”…Mr. Jones still jabs terse, unhurried melodies that sound as if he knows the lyrics but would never tell. Where the M.G.’s suavely underplayed their aggression, the rockers’ multiple-guitar attack, with distortion and feedback, gives the music teeth.

And a lot of the technique and the little T-Bone phrases that define his style, Chuck Berry, when he rearranged the beat, they became rock 'n roll guitar licks. So in essence, T-Bone was not only the first electric blues guitar player, but he was the first electric rock 'n roll guitar player, really.

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

I won't be able to live without my guitar, my phone or my boots on tour.

I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.