Roger McGuinn Quotes

Yeah, I'd always wanted to do a song with finger-picked, nylon-string guitar.

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 started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

I mainly like to do singer/songwriter kind of stuff.

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

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 mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

I learned classical guitar as a kid at about 7 or 8 years old. When I was about 14, I started dabbling in songwriting. That's when I got into the folky singer-songwriter style.

Usually I write on guitar.

When I first started fingerpicking, the first thing I learned was 'Don't Think Twice It's Alright' from Bob Dylan.

All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.

I like playing guitar I don't like talking about it. I like writing riffs, I don't like explaining them.

When I was 12 or 13, my dad taught me a couple of different chords, and once I learned chords, I never learned to read music, but I learned tablature, like a lot of kids do, and I learned songs that had the chords I knew. It took me a long time to understand the upstroke of picking and strumming, but once I did, it all fell into place.

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

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.

I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.

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.

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.