"As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music."

 

                           - Kyp Malone

 

                           "I'm gonna trade this life
                           For fortune and fame
                           I'd even cut my hair
                           And change my name...
                           Well, hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar"

 

                          - Nickleback, Rockstar

 

                          "Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying

                          to figure my way through life."

 

                          - Slash

 

                           "I just want to be a guy with a guitar."

 

                           - Jeff Buckley

 

                           "When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of

                           adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe

                           dances around."

 

                           - Joe Perry

 

                            "I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals

                            and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound."

 

                            - David Gilmour

 

                           "I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere."

 

                           - Keith Richards

 

                            "I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well."

 

                            - Don Henley

 

                           "I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do."

 

                           - Stone Gossard

 

                            "I grew up across the street from, you know, the Villarias, which was a great Mexican family there. In fact,

                            there was three houses right across the street from me. So, day and night, I listened to Mexican music, and

                            I'm sure, you know, my guitar playing, singing, writing, whatever, has a lot of Mexican flavor there, but it

                            comes natural."

 

                            - Willie Nelson

 

                            "I've been amazed by these guitars since the first time I played one. They are road ready instruments,

                            consistent, powerful and always in tune. Day in and day out, They're ready to play."

 

                            - Joe Bonamassa

 

                            "Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music.

                            There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now."

 

                            - Bob Dylan

 

                            "When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the

                            other was my guitar."

 

                            - Bruce Springsteen

 

                            "Simple truths are never platitudes; they only become commonplace because we fail to live them profoundly."

 

                            - John Furia Jr., The Singing Nun

 

                            "Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I

                            love being immersed in."

 

                            - Dan Aykroyd

 

                            "All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many

                            of those records, but if you were a kid, you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say -

                            you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful."

 

                            - Bruce Springsteen

 

                        "A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."

 

                        - Bob Dylan

 

                          "The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar."

 

                          - Jimi Hendrix

 

                                  "Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should

                                  resound in your heart."

 

                                 - Andres Segovia

 

                            "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."

 

                            - Dan Auerbach

                           David Johnson

 

                           "My first love was the sound of guitar."

 

                           - Boz Scaggs

 

                           "All I can do is be me, whoever that is."

 

                           - Bob Dylan

 

                            "I just go where the guitar takes me."

 

                            - Angus Young

 

                            "Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it."

 

                            - Thom Yorke