It's actually not that hard to play guitar in a rock band.
Aaron Dessner
David Longstreth is one of the great guitar heroes of our generation.
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
Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!
Aaron Yoo
I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
Abel Ferrara
My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
Ace Frehley
I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.
It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.
Adam Ant
I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
Adam Driver
My siblings weren't playing music; I was the only one who wanted to buy a guitar and was listening on headphones the whole time.
Adam Granduciel
All day long you write little ideas on the piano and the guitar, but sometimes all you have to do is come in, set up the mic, press record and start the process.
I love playing guitar every night, and to be at this point where it's like, the songs are done and I'm happy with the way they are on record, and I get to hear them be reinterpreted by the live band? That's kind of the icing on the cake. It's the best.
I've never set out to do anything other than get better at guitar and record and have fun. I feel like the Jazzmaster's just your comrade on that journey. It can be really subtle, it can be angry, it can be chill. It can be anything.
Sometimes it's hard for me to just be the guitar player and lose myself.
I started guitar when I was like thirteen. I had a friend whose dad had an electric guitar. In sixth grade or seventh grade I went over and played it and immediately I was super excited by the whole thing.
As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.
I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
I'm not a good guitar player.
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
I play guitar, and I'm a decent basketball player - people like to play on my team.
Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for the most part, it's kind of relegated to the sidelines.
Andy Chase and I were keyboard players originally, and we became guitarists later. But it's fun for us to focus more on the keyboard stuff sometimes.
I normally write on acoustic guitar, although piano is the instrument that I actually studied. Occasionally, I'll write on the piano or sometimes with no instrument at all.
Sometimes, I sit with my guitar and start playing... something or the other pops into my head... Basically, I write whatever that comes to my mind. I've written a lot of songs, but they are lying in my cupboard... I mean to do something about them someday.
Music was a part of my life even before acting happened. But I mostly play my guitar only for myself and sometimes when jamming with my friends.
Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.
I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.
I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.
I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
The acoustic guitar is my first love, I've been playing since I was a kid, and I feel the most at home when I'm sitting with an acoustic, I just love it so much. It changes my heart. I love the vibration and frequencies and the resonance.
When I was born, my dad was playing music, so I'm pretty sure he was singing to me in the womb. I was born into music, in a way, because he was playing acoustic guitar. I was around an instrument growing up.
It's rare for me to sit in a room with my guitar and feel like I can't stop playing, because it just sounds so good.
That's the way I started playing music: just playing guitar by myself in my room when I was a kid, and exploring the guitar and exploring the space I was in, with no project in mind.
I can't play the guitar, so the thoughts of playing one onstage at a festival makes me quiver, but I've been blabbering away in front of people since I was a child, so talking for a living isn't the most daunting thing to do.
My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.
I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there, playing the guitar at union meetings, functions. I sold some science-fiction stories. I knew there was absolutely no question of me not being connected with the arts, but I couldn't find any acting jobs.
Over the years, I played with a couple of spectacular guitar players, and playing with them has made me play better than I knew how to play. I hope the same thing is true with acting.
Because people don't understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that 'Guitar Hero' is the same as a real guitar.
I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.
The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.
