Guitar Quotes
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Take this rifle, kid. Gimme that guitar.
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When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.
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I remember I was five or six when Elvis came out, all the girls were going crazy. I listened to his music and always loved the guitar music in the background.
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Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.
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At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.
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I can embarrass myself very easily on guitar. It's funny because people say to me I can play anything; I'm God on the guitar. But I could make a big list of everything I can't play... I'm grateful that people don't notice that.
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I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.
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I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.
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In order to be a guitar player, you have to play guitar.
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If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.
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One time I said: maybe I should burn a guitar tonight. You know smash a guitar or something like that. And they said: yeah, yeah! I said: you really think I should? They said: yeah, that'd be cool. I said: well, ok.
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I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
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Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.
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I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.
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When my parents gave me that first guitar, I became totally obsessed. I would stay in my room all the time with it, and my parents were concerned.
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What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
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My first memory of guitar was seeing my father play one.
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One of the first things electric I ever saw was a guitar. I was living in a house with no electricity until, at 7, we moved to a house that had it. It had electric lights, but the previous owners had even taken the light bulbs with them when they moved.
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Over the years, I've had to learn to play. For example, when 'Lennon' was on Broadway, I learned my way around the guitar chords because originally we were all going to play the instruments without a band.
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I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience.
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What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting ... I wanted to be part of it.
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George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
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From a guitar player's point of view it's generally harder writing parts to songs than finding a part to base a song on.
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I've told older friends to pick up the guitar because it's a great way to express yourself. It's not all about making money: it's about creating art and working with other people. It's a journey, and it's a really fun thing to do.
