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I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

— John Fogerty

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

— Les Paul

I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players, another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.

— Donald Dunn

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

— Kirk Hammett

I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.

— Antje Traue

I play the guitar a little bit.

— Jim DeMint

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.

— Diane Warren

About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting.

— Terry Kath

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

— John Fahey

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

— Don McLean

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

— Ronnie Montrose

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