Guitar Quotes
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I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.
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I remember first seeing Barney Kessel, in the 1940s, standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, in his cowboy boots, sun glasses and hipster threads, holding his guitar case man, you just knew that cat could wail!'
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I like The Smiths as well. They took a cue from The Buzzcocks. They have jangly guitars instead of distorted guitars. All the Manchester bands have a character about them. The Stone Roses and The Smiths and all that. Even if you don't like them, they have a certain original sound.
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There's just a few people that call themselves stars can actually sit down with a guitar and sing you a song.
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My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.
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I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
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I just wanted to play my guitar.
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It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
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We were influenced by classic country acts like Merle Haggard and George Jones and Hank Williams but also by Clapton and the Stones and all the rock acts like that. I mean, what guitar player didn't start out with 'Satisfaction'?
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I don't spend afternoons practicing my guitar to get better. I do read, though, to get inspiration for my lyrics.
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Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.
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I played guitar and sang since the age of about 11. I was so lucky to go to a very cool and progressive working class rough and tough high school but still given so many opportunities to write and sing my own material.
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If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.
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To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.
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I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.
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A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.
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We'll see how the guitar players of the world take to it.
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As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it a style.
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To tell you the truth, I've never been really good at learning other people's stuff. I've been playing since I was 11, and I never took lessons. I kind of learned through hit and miss. I had the patience just because I loved guitar so much.
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When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.
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Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.
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I just go where the guitar takes me.
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Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was everything from then on.
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I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since.
