Malcolm Young Quotes

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

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

I'm not capable of wielding the guitar like Jimmy Page, one of my all-time favorite guitarists. My skill set is more based on the grinding, sort of human heartbeat - almost playing the guitar more like a drum.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

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.

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't.

The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.

I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

See, I'm not a very good musician.

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

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.