It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.
When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.
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 played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco.
The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.
I play the guitar.
The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
The lute I use has 10 courses and 19 strings, which is quite a lot of strings and a quite different fingerboard width from a classical guitar. I use a combination of flesh and nail when plucking the strings.
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one.
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.
I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at.
I played cello in my high school orchestra.
I don't need to speak...I play the guitar!
Some people play steel string beautifully, but I'm not exactly a world-class picker.
I didn't actually start playing the banjo until I was in high school.
Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.
Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
The violin is basically made of a wood box and four main strings.
Violinists' hands aren't the prettiest because of our nails and what our hands have to go through.
Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.
I first heard the banjo on the Beverly Hillbillies, and from then on I was banjo-conscious. But I didn't actually get one until my grandfather gave me one, almost by mistake. He knew I was playing a little bit of guitar. He saw a banjo at a flea market and bought it. I took it home with me and just never put it down. I was fifteen.
The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.
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.
