When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.
Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.
I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.
If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars bar.
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.
You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.
But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.
I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!
Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.
Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.
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.
I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.
So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.
I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.
I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.
This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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