Stone Gossard Quotes

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

Music has always been something that I knew that I would eventually want to pursue.

I've been singing my entire life. The guitar came to me later on down the road.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a very sports-oriented family. My last year of school, I got involved with playing guitar and singing, and I joined a band and I just decided that year somehow that I was going to play music.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.