Mark Twain Quotes

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

Wanting to play the guitar was neither a wild dream nor a realistic ambition. It was simply inevitable.

I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

The guitar is my whole life.

I started playing guitar when I was nine and just fell in love with that - I've been playing nonstop ever since.

I bought a Hofner guitar and amplifier for 32 guineas, then spent ages trying to make a bottleneck. At that point, I was meant to be developing my father's ice-cream cafe into a global concern, but I spent all my time in the stockroom playing slide guitar.

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

Playing the guitar is like telling the truth - you never have to worry about repeating the same [lie] if you told the truth. You don't have to pretend, or cover up. If someone asks you again, you don't have to think about it or worry about it because there it is. It's you.

You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.

Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B. King I learned that a lighter-gauge string offers superior playing comfort ... try it, you may like it.

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

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.

It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt...you weird talking person.

There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it's all about.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.