Chrissie Hynde Quotes

I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.

He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

i play a mean harmonica

I don't need to speak...I play the guitar!

I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.

Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

Oh, and Scott, get Mark to play me. He's the most talented one anyway.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

I was born with music inside of me, and that was the first flower that bloomed on my tree, but I was the highest key in my school and also the lowest key, seen?

I'd love to have Jack White up. I think he's just a phenomenal guitar player. I'd love to see him play up close because he's got a killer voice, and he's a great lead player, too. That would be exciting to me.

There is nothing wrong about being a rock n' roll guitar player.

Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.

I'm just a dumb guitar player, man.

My parents made me take piano lessons from 1st grade to when I graduated from high school, and music never came to me as naturally as my other more visual artistic talents.

Mostly, I'm much more of a guitar player than I am a singer.

I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.

Thank God I'm a horrible musician. Good singer, horrible musician.

I swear that he is an alien. There is something about his phrasing that is so unpredictable and cool. It makes you wonder where it came from. I wish I could play like that. I listen to Jeff Beck and think, 'Bloody hell!' The way that Jeff Beck and his band play together is just amazing. Yeah, those guys definitely come from another planet.