All gut strings. That’s just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it’s the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.
The guitar chose me.
I’m not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.
I’m left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.
I have a 1969 Grammer Johnny Cash acoustic guitar, and it’s so inspirational.
I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn’t exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.
And I’ve also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it’s more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.
We’re looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.
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.
My 10 year old son likes it. He’s trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
I’ve got 50 different tunings in the guitar.
I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.
Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn’t really want it then.
I never picked up a guitar as a kid, partly because my dad didn’t want the noise in our little back-to-back in Sheffield.
My son plays guitar, and he’s been at the Kennedy Center.
If you play acoustic guitar you’re the depressed, sensitive guy.
Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.
I’ll sit around and play my guitar; that’s how I write tunes.
I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably do 30 or 40 dates a year and I get to relive how I felt at 19 when I played in some really bad bands.
I didn’t know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I’m flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.
I’ve got a quick mouth, and I set my boundaries. Nothing ever happened that I couldn’t handle. Once when a guy came on stage making rude gestures, I hit him over the head with my guitar.
I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.
