Jimmy Page Quotes

The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.

I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it and I'm learning more and more everyday.

It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.

I've got a EC3-35 Gibson, which is pretty cherished. I've got a vintage Reichenbacker 330 in fireglow, which is the other one I look after and don't let the kids touch.

I play the guitar.

Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.

My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.

I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn't wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.

What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano.

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

Really young kids are into guitars.

I was a guitar player first off.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.

Very few guitarists play nylon-string. They don't know how to get the sound out of them. That's something I've spent a lot of time on.

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

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.