Lemmy Quotes

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

These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.

But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

You have a natural groove inside of you, but the more you practise, the more comfortable you will be with your instrument.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

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

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.

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

See, I'm not a very good musician.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing like the human voice. We couldn't do what we do without the classical training. It's a hard instrument to play. There are no frets, and it takes finesse and technique to play.

I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I started realizing other guitar players couldn't do it. I always went against the grain.

I know I'm not musically talented.

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.

If you can't play the blues... you might as well hang it up.

I've always loved the guitar. You see Jimi Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth, and OK, you know you're never going to be able to do that, but I always wanted to play an instrument of some sort.

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician.