Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.
My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.
Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.
I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.
It's really funny, I think to myself... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things don't change.
I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.
.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive
People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a jazz guitar player. Wes Montgomery was a jazz guitarist, Joe Pass was a jazz guitarist (laughs).
Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he wanted was something that sounded good when played it ... and he cared nothing about the collectibility of an instrument ... his philosophy was "A good player can make any guitar sound good" ... to Michael, a guitar was just a tool.
I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.
[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.
Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system; when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.
I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing.
I'm glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn't that difficult to do. I didn't take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.
I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist.
Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that it is coming together.
The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.
I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.
I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.
I can play the air guitar really, really well.
The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.
I'm not a good guitar player.
I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.
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