Guitar Quotes
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When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.
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Randy Rhoads had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.
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It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.
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The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.
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I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.
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I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.
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I pretty much wait for inspiration, then sit down at the piano or with the guitar. If I come up with something pretty cool, I put it on tape. If not, I just put the guitar down. I know these Nashville guys have a time each day they write, like a job. But I don't want a job! I like being a bum! My mother still asks me: "When are you gonna get a job?"
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Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.
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A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes
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In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.
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The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.
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My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.
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I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.
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I'm like a lot of people in my generation. Eventually I went to get an electric guitar.
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Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole...
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I often use dropped D or C - I even go all the way down to A. What can be really cool is drop a guitar down there and have the rest of the band continue in standard tuning. It gives it a lot of power and texture.
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Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.
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When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.
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I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.
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When I was 15 years old, my cousin and I formed a singing group called The Altaires. And, because we became the most popular singing group in the Tri-State area, the rest of the group convinced me I should play the guitar - even though I didn't own one! So what happened was, my stepfather actually made my first electric guitar for me for $23!
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People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.
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If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.
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During overdubs, I'd pick up whatever looked interesting at the moment or whichever guitar I hadn't played yet. I like having such a broad palette to dip into.
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In the past I experimented a bit with pedals, but it got too much. It was always in the way of making the show somehow. Too many extra things to concentrate on. But I don't think you need much more than to plug a guitar right in & just mess about with what's there, let the fingers do the work.
