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I'm gonna have to say the Beatles, even though I probably listen, casually at least, to the Rolling Stones more often. But the Beatles had a solid consecutive and consistent turn-out of top quality stuff and influence too, the Stones to me had thier best stuff early on.

I don't know if this qualifies as a quote, but my brother refers to mediocre guitars/guitarists as 'SPEE-lunkers', its funny and I don't know why.

Broken guitar strings
but I still know my songs

Love this line!

"Welcome to two thousand three minus twenty five
Oh Say can you smell her for the smoke,
God's still up there laughin' so He's gotta be alive
And who says he can't take a dirty joke?"

- The Year 2003 Minus 25, off the Waylon and Willie album

'Serves Me Right To Suffer', the name says it all on that one. There's something more ironic and painful about the blues when its all your fault, and that song's a great example of how a simple statement can make such an emotional impact.... to me anyway.

I'll second that! I've learned that myself in my five years of playing. Learn the tabs (or music or whatever you use), but don't be afraid to do what comes natural for you. For example I'm always hammering on all over the place, especially at chord changes, to a fault at times then I think 'now that just sounds ridiculous you've got to make yourself stop'. But always be you, you can have a song be recognizable and still tweak it to fit your style/skill level.
And I still have days where I play horrible, and days when I feel like I play very well. One thing to bear in mind is there's no such thing as wasted practice. Any time you play you're growing and learning, even if you don't think so. And one day you'll realize you're very descent and wonder how it happened, but it was all that monotnous strumming your three little chords, then stumbling through your scales, then botching your first tabs that actually built you up to the level you're on. Not to mention your building your callouses every time you play.

This is interesting because I was debating between an ovation and a Takamine myself, and ended up going the opposite way because I found such an amazing deal on my G-series dreadnought.  But my neighbor brought an ovation over here the other day for me to tune (it has a built in tuner so it wasn't too hard at all really), and I have to admit I had a moment of doubt. As a female player the ovation was such a great fit for my hands and body, very very comfortable. And the sound was nice too, even for the lower end model. Made me rethink all over again... but I'm rather attached to the Takamine, there is still something about the acoustic guitar that I can't get over. Maybe its the feel. I will say an Ovations on my wish list now...

I'm going to work for a while, save up some money hopefully, and just figure out what I want to do. Id hate to jump into college and get in a bunch of debt when I'm not really sure what I want to do for my career yet. I like working with kids, so thats something to work with I guess. Its always struck me as odd that society expects us stupid teenagers/young adults to know right now what we want to do for the remaining 3/4s of our lives

Thats really cool. I love kids too and I've been trying to find ways to make my career something that has to do with them, and I'm not really sure I want to be a school teacher. Thats just great to hear somebody's doing something positive for the lil' ones

I have heard it! Very interesting. Not sure ita my fav but definately cool to hear.

Thanks! And its weird, the first drawing I did that was sort of like that, I had no idea who Escher was but people kept telling me I had to be influenced by him. I've come to love his stuff and now I WOULD say he's influenced me, but it didn't start that way.