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Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.

— George Benson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.

— Michael Imperioli

I was a guitar player first off.

— Boz Scaggs

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

— Buzz Osborne

After 'Rock Star,' I was definitely doing more high profile gigs. I was playing in Iceland. I was playing in Canada.

— Josh Logan

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

— Alan Greenspan

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

— Slash

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

— George Benson

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

— Diplo

✗Opposing Perspectives

I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.

— Johnny Depp

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.

— Oscar Isaac