Duff McKagan Quotes

I don't sing. I played guitar for a while. I'm not great, I'm not Lenny Kravitz by any means, but I do like to strum.

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument.

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

From childhood, I have been more of a musician than a singer. People close to me know how much effort I put into practising. Even when I am travelling, I have my tanpura on my iPhone.

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do.

I consider myself a bassist first.

I always got great respect as a bass player.

I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked at that giant monster and said to myself - I am not going to lock myself on that bench the whole day. This is small and lightweight. I can play from standing, sitting or walking.

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

I'm a struggling guitar player.

I have literally been working in music just about my entire life.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

I started playing music when I was around 10. I always wanted to be in a band, so I started out by playing drums.