Quote Originally Posted by Gabor
Instruments (so guitars) are tools too. Inspiration can come from different sources, by loved sound, by touch they can call up result from the mind. Of course not from an empty mind. Inspiration can be *sensual* and also can be emotional, and also can be intellectual. So what you say and what I say can live together. You mention some emotional inspiration sources, but there are sensuals too and intellectuals too. They can work together.
I remember reading an interview with Stanley Clarke where he said he was so much more inspired and moved to play on his Alembic(?) than his previous Fender Bass.

And it's not just guitarists/bassists. Could Neil Peart "express" himself as well as he did on just a 5 drum trap set?