Guitar Quotes
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It means a lot that fans feel connected to us and care about us, and that means the world, because that's what we want. We don't want them to feel like we're unattainable because we're just like them. We're all normal kids but somehow we got lucky when we picked up a guitar.
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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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.
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I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That's how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be a musician.
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While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.
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I want to make money playing guitar.
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I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.
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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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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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By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
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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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'Built This Pool' was an idea that I had for a song starting several years ago, and as we were in between takes of recording something, I was actually holding a guitar at the time, and I played this silly thing, and sang the lyrics to 'Built This Pool' kinda in the background.
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I don't need to speak...I play the guitar!
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I had been playing guitar since I was 12. When I was 16, some band had a show and needed a singer... so I did it. I sounded like pure fuckin shit, but it felt natural... so I stuck at it.
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I started on drums when I was 13 and played them for two years. Then I went to guitar for a year, played keyboards for a year and a half, and went back to guitar.
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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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I had a guitar sitting around, and it just happened to have four strings on it, and I would sit around watching TV and playing it. I ended up writing bunches of songs around four strings.
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I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
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If you're a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you're an actor, you can't just like burst into a monologue. Your only exercise is when you're in prep or you're working.
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I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.
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I played all the guitar parts except the guitar solo on 'Beat It.'
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Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.
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I play enough guitar to get by. I don't like to play guitar live.
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Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.
