Fred Frith Quotes

I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head.

From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.

I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.

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

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

Very few guitarists play nylon-string. They don't know how to get the sound out of them. That's something I've spent a lot of time on.

I'm always playing guitar.

One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on an acoustic guitar. You must develop it as a totally different thing.

The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.

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.

I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it and I'm learning more and more everyday.

I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at.

I play the guitar.

I love playing acoustic guitar because I strum with my hands to feel more connected.

I play the guitar every day.

Usually I write on guitar.

Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.

I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you know, it got to a point where on expert, you can only exceed to a certain point. And so, you know, I was like, 'Let's play real guitar. Let's not waste more time.' So, I got my mom, I told her to buy me a guitar for Christmas, and I started making music then.

I love classical music, but I hated classical guitar. But I like flamenco, because there was something else there going on. It wasn't just the notes being thrown at you. And there were certain kinds of jazz that I really liked and other kinds that just went right over my head.

I don't like to be caught without a pick.

I write songs, I play a guitar and that's it.

Something people might not know about me is, I like playing the guitar.

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style.

I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them.