Stephen Stills Quotes

I'm learning on the guitar all the time.

You never learn everything on that guitar neck.

The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.

As a guitar player, you never stop learning, never stop honing your skills.

Dime knew the importance of every aspect of playing the guitar.

I was learning guitar as the band was beginning, at least in terms of being a lead guitar player. I could write songs, but I couldn't really play solos.

When I picked up guitar, it wasn't like, 'OK, I'm going to be Kenny Chesney.' It was like, 'I want to play a chord,' and then it was like, 'I want to play another one, then play a song, then sing while playing the song.'

In order to become a well-rounded musician, you have to master the three major aspects of guitar playing: the technical side, the musical side and the creative side.

When I picked up my guitar, I spent the first day learning the chord E, the second day A, then B7, and all of a sudden, I could play the blues.

I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

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!

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

I started playing guitar when I was 14 and eventually gained the confidence to start singing a little bit.

There's more to playing the guitar than being able to split your legs.

I've started to look at guitar playing from more than just a standpoint of using certain modes and techniques.