St. Vincent Quotes

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.

Of course, I'm a guitar player, so I'm thinking as a guitarist. I have to work within my physical limitations as to what my hands will do, and also the patterns I'm familiar with, and the places that my fingers are used to going.

It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I'm always trying to learn something new or trying to be a real guitar player.

In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

As a guitar player, you never stop learning, never stop honing your skills.

I would love to learn to play something so I don't have to rely on someone to collaborate with.

I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.

I'm surrounded by great guitar players.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

I ended up starting guitar because I didn't want to just be the lead singer.

I play the guitar every day.

I started playing guitar when I was nine and just fell in love with that - I've been playing nonstop ever since.

I play guitar; I can sing a little bit.

I live, breathe, and sleep guitars.

I'm an acoustic guitar owner - in the sense that I own them, and they sit at my house, and I never play them.

There are people who take tap class, do a tap dance. And then there are people who know the dance, who know why they take tap classes. Who know why they do 20 shuffles, or 50 shuffles, before they go on.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

Piano is like drudgery.

I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!