Ani DiFranco quote: "These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound."

It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the...
STEVE VAI

Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why....
KIRK HAMMETT

My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. E...
SLASH

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how...
EDDIE VAN HALEN

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. ...
SLASH

I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this prob...
MAC DEMARCO

All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. An...
GUY CLARK

Conventional bands with acoustic drums and guitar amps don't need much more than vocals in the floor...
CLIFF TUNE

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
IRIS DEMENT

The amps are turned up until the sound breaks. There's nothing fake involved.
GABE BORQUEZ

I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril...
GABRIELLE APLIN

It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'...
IAN WILLIAMS

For me, songwriting is really where it's at. I turn to use the guitar just to help me write the ...
MARK KNOPFLER

I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar,...
DANIEL EK

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
ANDY SUMMERS

At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is grea...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON

I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable...
JEFF BECK

A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold...
JAMES HETFIELD

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

There is no reason why a guitar player makes the guitar-playing faces. It doesn't help you play ...
ANDY BIERSACK

After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watchi...
KIRK HAMMETT

I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It'...
ALEX LIFESON

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.
STEPHAN JENKINS

I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon...
RIVERS CUOMO

I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratificat...
JEREMY RENNER

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so ...
BRUNO MARS

I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable gui...
JEFF BECK

A first for Consumption, I think, We're playing stripped-down acoustic, which is how our songs start...
GINA TURNER

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't...
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar ...
BENJAMIN BOOKER

A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound ...
THE EDGE

Right now the sun is beginning to set, we're generating about nine amps.
BOB FOSTER

In the '90s, I think I rediscovered my guitar. The Jam was obviously very guitar-based, but in t...
PAUL WELLER

In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself s...
AUTRE NE VEUT

We were the first wave raised on Les Paul, Link Wray, Dick Dale and Scottie Moore, ... We were the f...
TED NUGENT

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a co...
JON PARDI

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits a...
RAY LAMONTAGNE

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used ...
STEVIE NICKS

The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guit...
CHUCK BERRY

The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You...
STEVE VAI

I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ ...
TOM VERLAINE

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

There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are p...
JOHN FOGERTY

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 know how a guitar player likes a guitar to feel and to sound. Having the right tone is everything.
DON MEYERS

And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all...
EDDIE VAN HALEN

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing...
DAISY BERKOWITZ

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that'...
JIMMY PAGE

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to...
JIMMY PAGE

I couldn't sing without a guitar. I like the way it feels to sing and be holding a guitar, even ...
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR.

Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.
KIRK HAMMETT

My first guitar was like a campfire guitar. And it was left at a house that my family had moved into...
JIMMY PAGE

Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing...
THE EDGE

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about ...
CARLOS SANTANA

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my per...
MAIA MITCHELL

I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of...
JEFF BECK

I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew ...
DONALD DUNN

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.
AUSTIN BUTLER

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got...
KIP WINGER

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a ...
DEE DEE RAMONE

The market has believed that next year the Fed will ease down while the ECB amps up its rate hike cy...
GREG SALVAGGIO

After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bot...
APRIL GORNIK

It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who e...
SAMMY HAGAR

I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right;...
JOHNNY WINTER

My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and ...
JERRY GARCIA

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you&...
JIMI HENDRIX

The first guitar player I saw putting on a show was Guitar Slim - I must've been 13 years old - he c...
BUDDY GUY

There's a sound with Motley Crue, and it comes with Vince's voice, which is such an importan...
NIKKI SIXX

I got it into my head that I had somewhat neglected the guitar, and then I did a record called '...
TODD RUNDGREN

The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't ha...
PHIL ANSELMO

James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on ba...
VONDA SHEPARD

Obviously, I am not going to say which one it is, but it is a guitar that has been around my house f...
ERIC CLAPTON

So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing...
BILLY SHERWOOD

As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the dru...
DARON MALAKIAN

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
BILL NIGHY

I think if you take 'Get Ready,' 'Waiting For The Siren's Call,' 'Lost Siren...
BERNARD SUMNER

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the su...
KRIST NOVOSELIC

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tin...
ACE FREHLEY

I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not marrie...
DAN AUERBACH

I'm always trying to emulate guitar. Especially when I'm playing the trombone, that's wh...
TROMBONE SHORTY

Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playin...
CAT POWER

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm jus...
PHILLIP PHILLIPS

So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and.....
CALLIE THORNE

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane...
TOMMY CHONG

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g...
SIMON COWELL

My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, ...
GEORGE BENSON

I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you kno...
POST MALONE

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've...
GLENN FREY

It's cool to play the guitar, but to me it's even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and fo...
DIPLO

I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up w...
DUSTIN LYNCH

You can batter your guitar, and it won't distort too much, which is important for me because I p...
JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW

For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on w...
KIRK HAMMETT

I guess you'd say I'm a gearhead. It's not just guitars; I have five or six drum sets, a...
DARON MALAKIAN

What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group whe...
TALIB KWELI

'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop an...
JON PARDI

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer...
GUY CLARK

If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop ...
ANDY SUMMERS

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