Folk guitarist John Fahey had some deep thoughts about things:

Those who fear their guitars are essentially cowardly faggots who have allowed themselves to be conquered by perverse tendencies. There are unable to sit anywhere for six hours under any circumstance. Their span of attention is short, but what is much worse is that they don't care. They don't even care to lean how to lengthen it. They have constituted themselves as essentially as hatred, opposition - pure negativity. Homosexual guitar playing is an imitative gesture of the non-essential (i.e. temporary) characteristics of women - bitchiness, frivolity, flightiness, and super-sensitivity. These superficial characteristics are not the essence of the feminine. Look at the homosexual guitarist pick up the guitar - he is afraid to touch it. He is afraid of it. He thinks it hates him because he hates it so much. He has constituted his spirit against - he is against life. He is a Nazi. His politics are against freedom. He is a totalitarian at heart, but he has no power. He must overcome this fear of the guitar. And he can. The guitar must be his secret love, narcotic, whatever image he prefers. But he cannot forget to abuse it also, to learn to bang on it and to make a percussion instrument of it, to play hard on it, and bend it to his will.