Dick Dale Quotes

I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.

I sing a bit and play guitar.

I'm most comfortable when you just give me a guitar and I just sing.

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

'Blackbird' is a really beautiful song, and I actually recently started trying to learn it, and it's beautiful.

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

I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.

I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.

My mom wanted to be a country singer, too, so country was always being played. And my girlfriends and I used to go to concerts, like Brad Paisley, in middle school and high school.

My guitar was a loyal person to me.

I love to sing. I'm learning guitar right now.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

And I think as long as a song has beautiful lyrics, I'm so happy.

My first love was the sound of guitar.

I always enjoyed singing; I played guitar.

It's a hobby for me, but I'm never alone if there's a guitar there.

I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad bought me a $7.50 guitar.

To have a man play guitar and sing to you is cool.

I write songs all the time. Sometimes they're just weird songs I sing while changing a baby, or songs about annoying things that I sing to myself, or to friends while sitting at a bar, or about Christmas or New York.

As a kid, I loved any guitarists, whether it was Elvis Presley, Lonnie Donegan, Chuck Berry or even the cowboy guitarists like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. The image of the guitar appealed to me.