Warren Zevon Quotes

My dad had a guitar that he gave me. I went to Walmart and bought a chord chart and hung it up in my room, and I was just trying to figure out how to play the guitar and put words with what I was learning.

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.

What happens is people go, 'I want to play the guitar,' and the first thing they do is hit Google: 'How can I play this?' and the next thing you know, you've learned all these tricks, but you've never learned how to play rhythm guitar with a groove.

I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

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

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.

The only one I can play like is Johnny Ramone. I would love to be able to play like other great guitarists, but my mind doesn't work like that.

I'm not a good guitar player.

I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.

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

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.

I know a few chords on the guitar, but I wouldn't be able do a show or even be part of a jam session with one.

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

Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you'll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit.

You never learn everything on that guitar neck.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.

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

I'm learning on the guitar all the time.

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.

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

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

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