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I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.

— Johnny Marr

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.

— Slash

I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

— Bryan White

When it came to rock, I was always drawn to guitars.

— Brantley Gilbert

I got into rock music at thirteen, listening to Van Halen, learned how to play the electric guitar.

— Dierks Bentley

I'm a guitar player, really - I mean, first and foremost - I grew up with all that great 1960s music, in terms of growing up, becoming a musician, so it's like first-love stuff; I'm always going to go back to it.

— Todd Rundgren

My real interest in music was the old 78 records and the sound of the music. I loved it and began to realize that one of the main sounds on those old records I loved was the guitar.

— Doc Watson

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play.

— Arto Lindsay

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. 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

✗Opposing Perspectives

I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.

— Cass McCombs

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

— Alessia Cara