Stanley Jordan Quotes

You go with what you 'get,' and I get playing the guitar. It's a challenge because it's not an easy instrument to play. There are so many interesting sounds you can make out of it and so many different elements. I dig it.

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

My favourite guitar was - I can't remember if it was '50s or '60s - a pale wood Telecaster, and it made me a better player. It was beautiful, so easy to play.

I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco.

I play a PRS Custom 22. I learned on a Custom 24. It was set for a country guitarist, so it had a really high action.

I have been using small teardrop jazz picks since I was, like, 14.

I started playing guitar when I was 14.

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

I like a bass drum. A big one.

When I feel like improvising, I always improvise on the guitar, never on the lute. It's as natural to me as breathing.

I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.

You need to have spent your time from playing Top 40 pop rock in order to know how to play a song like 'Ritual,' a song like 'Absolution' or 'Idolatrine.' You need to know your classic drumming and your classic guitar.

Chromamatic' is actually about changing the strings on my guitar and tuning my guitar.

I used to have these reoccurring dreams that I played guitar, which I thought was so bizarre. It all sort of fit together at some point, and I said 'I want to play guitar.'

When I was 14, I bought myself a cheap electric guitar and tried to teach myself.

I started as a drummer. The feet are an extension of that.

I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.

Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to fight through getting callouses on your fingers because it hurts, you are pressing your fingers on metal strings, they will hurt at first until you start building up callouses.

When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.

I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

With slide guitar, you're just hanging this piece of glass on your hand. It's a really beautiful instrument in that it's so responsive, you're just slipping your hand back and forth.

A guitar is something you can hold and love and it's never going to bug you. But here's the secret about the guitar - it's defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know.

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

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up