Guitar Quotes
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The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.
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I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's.
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And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
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I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril Lavigne! But I got annoyed with having to plug it in and play with amps and pedals and stuff. Then I got given a cheap acoustic, a Tanglewood, and I thought it was awesome because I could play it anywhere!
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I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.
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I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace.
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I met my manager when I was 17, when I didn't have enough money to buy a set of guitar strings. There are not very many people who are looking out for you and being in business with you when you're at that stage. And it's not in my nature to think that success as a musician makes you any different from anybody else.
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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.
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To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
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My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
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The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
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I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
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My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.
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Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.
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From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
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I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
