Rickey Medlocke Quotes

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

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

With a lot of action scores, you're competing with a lot of noise. Say there's a big explosion: the music would conventionally have a lot of Hollywood-style percussion or brass, because that's the only thing that will cut through.

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.

So I started to learn guitar right away.

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

I can write hundreds of songs on simple power chords.

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part.

I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel.

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

When I think of Morricone, more than his using a specific instrument or a specific sound, it's his way of approaching music that sticks out.

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.

I haven't learned anything new on guitar since high school. And I think it's time to learn something.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

Certainly, as a guitarist, I was aware of descending chromatic lines and arpeggios long before 1968.

I'm into the whole song-as-a-piece-of-music thing: if it literally doesn't call for it, if it already has enough stuff going on, then it's okay not to play a solo.

Basically, everything I've learned on guitar, I've learned from listening to my favorite albums. I never had any formal training. My teachers were Dimebag Darrell and Slash and the guys in Rancid and Slayer.

I play guitar and I'm always trying to find out the latest kinds of riffs.

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.