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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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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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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I play enough guitar to get by. I don't like to play guitar live.
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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 was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.
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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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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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My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
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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 wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
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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 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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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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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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No matter how long you play the guitar, there's always something else to learn.
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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 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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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.
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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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For the person who wrote a review saying I am "pretending" to play the guitar,well you obviously haven't done ur research! Its REAL!!
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I played all the guitar parts except the guitar solo on 'Beat It.'
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I grew up not really listening to guitar players. Especially when I was studying music, I was just interested in piano players and arrangers and composers; I came to playing in a band from the perspective of someone who never expected to play guitar in a band.
