Brad Paisley Quotes

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I play guitar all the time, and I'm constantly thinking of songs... Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs, all different bands I've been in. Sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with Slipknot, and I just can't use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhythm chops hugg!

I was always good at music.

I wanted to be the best guitar player in the world. And then my dad got me a portable recorder, so I started writing my own music.

I worked extremely hard at my craft and at being a good songwriter, being a good guitar player, being a good organist, because I didn't think people would take me seriously.

Generally, I think of myself as a guitar player, but when I do find the right song to sing lead on, I try to do my best.

I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!

We try to write the best songs ever and they kinda come out funny.

I've been playing guitar since I was 6 and then drums, bass, and piano since I was 10 years old.

I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.

Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.