Corey Taylor Quotes

Every song I write, including 'Too Close,' always starts on the guitar.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning.

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano.

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

I love playing the guitar.

I've always been an acoustic guitar player, and I've pretty much continued to play acoustic guitar throughout all of the Sonic Youth periods. My material for Sonic Youth often started on acoustic guitar.

And I only really like to play the acoustic guitar.

The guitar is the ultimate vehicle for expression and composition for me. It's a part of my DNA!

I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.

I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

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

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.

I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.

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

When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.

When I started writing music on the guitar, it started off very folky because of my limited ability to play. It was slow, soft melodies. But then, as I got better on the guitar, I started exploring different sounds.

I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes, and sometimes it lasts all day.

I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads.