Eugene Mirman Quotes

I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.

I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.

I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage. I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

I like people writing great songs on guitar or piano or what have you. I miss people getting on stage with real bands and real instruments and expressing themselves that way instead of with computers and technology.

I play the guitar.

Normally, I can get through a whole show with one guitar pick.

I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!

When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.

But we go out as a band because we enjoy each others company, first of all. And its the payoff for me, to go out and play my art and still play guitar, which is my life.

Back when I was in high school, I came out onstage with my guitar and had four guys playing behind me. We were just playing a dance, but I was standing in front of an audience rocking out. I'm still rocking out like when I was a kid. I haven't changed.

It doesn't necessarily matter if I'm onstage or not. I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type of music performance, achieves a kind of transcendence that I associate with spirituality. It's the closest thing to what I think people expect church to be like. Or maybe just what I've always thought church should be. You lose yourself, and at the same time come to the realization or understanding that you're part of something bigger than yourself.

I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.

To get up on stage with a band is fantastic. To play songs to an audience is mindblowing.

I'd say it's harder to play with an acoustic guitar strapped over your shoulder for a few hundred people than it is to play in front of thousands with an entire bombastic band behind you. After all these years, I still get nervous in front of people. I can't help it.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

Shut Up and Play your Guitar.

I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't really know how to do, it's terrifying.

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

I'm not a real musician. If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that. I want to be able to be in a group and take my guitar and play with them, without someone showing me, "Okay, you're going to do this and that," because music has always been a big part of my life.

Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.