Guitar Quotes
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When I wrote the first album I had never played live before, and I'd never been on tour. So that was really just me and my guitar.
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I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' Dangler basslines and said, "I don't like that, do something else." The same goes for the beat and the guitars. I think that's why we were able to make four albums together.
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Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin.
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I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.
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Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.
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I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.
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I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.
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In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.
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I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.
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Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.
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But the day that I die will be the day that I shut my mouth and put down my guitar.
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I don't recall what the first record I bought was, but I definitely remember hearing Creedence's 'Born on the Bayou' and going out and buying it. The guitar and drums in that band were really good. I loved the words to the title track, and Fogerty's voice sounded just great.
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If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.
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It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.
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A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.
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I bought me a guitar about a year ago, learned how to play in a day or so.
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I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.
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Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.
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I would have liked to grow up in Liverpool and become a rocker. I would have put my boots on, jeans and a leather jacket, and long hair and played the guitar.
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I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar
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The first thing that got to me was seeing David Bowie on a children's TV show, but Bowie was way beyond my aspirations. The Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch came out in 1977 and it had a breakdown of the recording costs, then you saw Pete Shelley playing a broken guitar from Woolworths. We already had an idea of the kind of music we wanted to do, but punk showed us a way to do it.
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In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.
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One of the signature things about Heart was the acoustic guitar in a rock format, which you didn't hear that often.
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I can't do anything but play guitar.
