When I was 11 years old, I started playing guitar.
The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.
What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano.
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.
I remember a song I did called 'If the Good Die Young' - I wanted to have a lead guitar solo on there, and the label flipped out! It was too rock and roll. They made us go back and put fiddle on the solo.
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
We tune differently, and we use some tricks. There's just the two of us for much of a concert, so we want a big sound. We do use some guitar effects, distortion and delay. Playing cello with distortion sounds so good.
I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.
I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.
I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer.
I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.
With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, 'Can I sing this part,' or, 'I want to play guitar.'
Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive.
While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.
Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.
The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.
The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals.
Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.
There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.
I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.
Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.
Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.
I'm always trying to emulate guitar. Especially when I'm playing the trombone, that's what I think about. Like, I listen to guitar players every day: Warren Haynes, Lenny Kravitz, Prince, different people. And I'm always trying to find out a way how I can get my trombone to sound like that.
I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.
Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.
My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.
At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online.
Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.
In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.
