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I'm born and raised Long Island. Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Ben Gibbard - melody-driven guys... The...
JON BELLION In the '90s, I think I rediscovered my guitar. The Jam was obviously very guitar-based, but in t...
PAUL WELLER In junior high I just started playing the guitar. I just like music. It's in my family.
CLINT CASTANEDA I got my first guitar when I was 15. Danny was just a little bugger.
GEORGE BAXTER I love bummer songs.
BEN GIBBARD It's our hope that this project serves as a model to both labels and bands as a way to grant the dir...
BEN GIBBARD For us, it comes down to word of mouth and slogging it out, and being a good live band.
BEN GIBBARD This is a shoeless town. I don't think I saw one pair of shoes all day. It's all flip flops down her...
BEN GIBBARD Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they've just stayed true to why they play music ...
BEN GIBBARD I had no idea it was such a big deal. We were touring in Japan beforehand and people kept telling us...
BEN GIBBARD It has recently come to our attention that Apple Computers' new television commercial for the Intel ...
BEN GIBBARD To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic ju...
BEN GIBBARD The luxury of having a larger budget wasn't about spending $100,000 mixing with fancy Hit Factory mi...
BEN GIBBARD I feel like this is more of an open, optimistic record, but there is a theme of mortality that float...
BEN GIBBARD We've been handed this opportunity where we can make a real dent in popular music that we never woul...
BEN GIBBARD I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get...
BEN GIBBARD Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink an...
BEN GIBBARD I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on ...
BEN GIBBARD We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simp...
BEN GIBBARD I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.
BEN GIBBARD What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and...
BEN GIBBARD As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.
BEN GIBBARD Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's...
BEN GIBBARD The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that p...
BEN GIBBARD When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it wa...
BEN GIBBARD I feel that we are currently living in a world that is similar to late '50s, early '60s kind...
BEN GIBBARD I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kin...
BEN GIBBARD The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' o...
BEN GIBBARD It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think w...
BEN GIBBARD I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal l...
BEN GIBBARD For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we cou...
BEN GIBBARD We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are ...
BEN GIBBARD It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your ...
BEN GIBBARD To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlanti...
BEN GIBBARD I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting mo...
BEN GIBBARD You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a hea...
BEN GIBBARD Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or w...
BEN GIBBARD
We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration. ALAN STERN
I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratificat... JEREMY RENNER As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the dru...
DARON MALAKIAN It was (just) me and my little keyboard and my guitar. It was weird.
ALESSANDRO CORTINI
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my gu... JIMI HENDRIX My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
IRIS DEMENT I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.
BURGESS MEREDITH I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but ...
DOC WATSON
I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon... RIVERS CUOMO I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.
BILL VIOLA
I just go where the guitar takes me. ANGUS YOUNG
And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that t... BEAU BRIDGES
I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two... B. B. KING
I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got... KIP WINGER All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. An...
GUY CLARK I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percu...
JACKIE DESHANNON I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of ...
MARGUERITE YOUNG The ten-block radius around my house in Brooklyn has been my whole world. When I walk on the street,...
LUCAS HEDGES I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and...
BOZ SCAGGS It's time we rediscovered the thrill of space,
WILL WHITEHORN
But … the other thing besides that which is true is that we have … been rediscovered or discover... NIKKI SIXX
Ben - Sir Ben - is always a lift. He's always interesting to watch, so you just try and remember you... MORGAN FREEMAN My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry an...
DRAKE BELL That was the thing about Ben. He could get away with saying shit like that. I totally couldn’t. I ...
BILL KONIGSBERG Cassie?”
It’s Sammy, holding on to Ben, because he’s feeling the Ben thing a little more ...
RICK YANCEY
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions. B. B. KING For me, songwriting is really where it's at. I turn to use the guitar just to help me write the ...
MARK KNOPFLER
These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual t... ANI DIFRANCO Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
J MASCIS Great job, you just executed Ben Franklin! - Otto Ray
MONET POLNY
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playi... BILLY CORGAN My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me ...
GEORGE BENSON
I like to be quiet and play guitar and just chill. POST MALONE
My sunglasses are like my guitar. PATTI SMITH
Oh, man, I love the Staple Singers. I love Pop Staples' guitar playing, too. He's one of my ... BRITTANY HOWARD I kept waiting for Ben (center Ben Wallace ) to come back in. I guess (coach) felt that if things we...
ANTONIO MCDYESS As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play an...
LES PAUL I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Count...
CARL WILSON I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my f...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE And if it's not there - if that little melody is not in my head, or if I just don't really feel like...
BOZ SCAGGS
My guitar, it was new when I got it, but it has a hole like Willie's where it's just worn ou... DIERKS BENTLEY I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.
DAVE PIRNER
If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar. KIRK HAMMETT I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this prob...
MAC DEMARCO When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, no...
EDDY ARNOLD
I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hea... RITCHIE BLACKMORE When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and pl...
LES PAUL
When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar. MICHELLE BRANCH
I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar ... DON MCLEAN It's Big Ben vs. Gentle Ben.
RICH YAMARONE Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered t...
NORMAN JEWISON He's rediscovered his place, he's fit, and if he keeps on playing this that he'll be a handful for a...
ROBERTO MANCINI
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guit... JIMMY PAGE
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the gui... JIMMY PAGE
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guita... JIMMY PAGE Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of trippin...
SLASH I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporar...
YUSUF ISLAM I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.
ERNIE ISLEY I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school.
ARMIN VAN BUUREN My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, ...
GEORGE BENSON Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
BEN CASNOCHA
I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It'... ALEX LIFESON
My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so ... BRUNO MARS
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names... 
If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge... 
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st... 
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. 
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ... 
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare... 
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ... 
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee... 
Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An... 
I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b... 
Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. 
Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin... 
Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid... 
Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His... 
I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ... 
I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ... 
I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learni... 
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. 
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t... 
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor... 
This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha... 
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth. 
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. 
With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a... 
Happiness is a journey not a destination. 
Success is a journey, not a destination. 
No one will do it for you. 
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. 
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort... 
Force works on servile natures, not the free. 
Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... 
We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda... 
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. 
Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them. 
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st... 
The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. 
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done. 
I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri... 
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. 
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first. 
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv... 
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,... 
Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h... 
There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. 
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. 
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. 
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for th... 
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture ... 