“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 feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn’t interested.

I’m not a jazz singer.

The smell of oak reminds me of summers spent sleeping under canvas, crackling fires and roasted coffee, the soft sound of guitar and voices in unison.

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

Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling.

Charlie Christians’ contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons’ contributions to the world.

It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn’t play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.

I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.