Roger McGuinn Quotes

My first memory of guitar was seeing my father play one.

My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.

My first guitar was a Les Paul that I bought off a friend for 500 bucks. I worked a long time to save up enough money for it.

There was an old acoustic in the house that my mother had given me for my fifth birthday. I took it off the wall and started jamming. I was seven years old at the time.

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

I love the guitar for its harmony; it is my constant companion in all my travels.

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

I sing a bit and play guitar.

I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound.

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

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

I was a guitar player first off.

When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved it. I started making up my own songs right away.

I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad bought me a $7.50 guitar.

I was 11 years old, and I had been playing classical piano for three years, and suddenly the guitar came and landed in my arms. I fell in love with that instrument, and I still love it today. I love it so much.

I play the guitar every day.

I got this cheap guitar, and then I fell in love with it and basically put down the keyboard.

I got my first guitar for Christmas when I was five years old.

I'm playing a D-28 Martin that I've had about 20 years or so. I've got a '51 Martin and I thought I shouldn't be taking this on the road. So I went down to Gruhn Guitars in Nashville and kind of traded around and ended up with this one. This guitar sounded pretty good as new guitar.

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

I've never set out to do anything other than get better at guitar and record and have fun. I feel like the Jazzmaster's just your comrade on that journey. It can be really subtle, it can be angry, it can be chill. It can be anything.