Mick Mars Quotes

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

I want young Indian composers to be able to do more than just film music. I want to give them the skills that will enable them to create their own palette of sounds instead of having to write formulaic music. It doesn't matter if they become sound engineers, producers, composers or performers - I want them to be as imaginative as they like.

I play the guitar and the piano and have a group of guys who I play with. They're uber talented.

I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!

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.

A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.

I haven't learned anything new on guitar since high school. And I think it's time to learn something.

I've started to look at guitar playing from more than just a standpoint of using certain modes and techniques.

My dad was a really good classical guitarist. He took lessons with a student of Andre Segovia.

When I picked up guitar, it wasn't like, 'OK, I'm going to be Kenny Chesney.' It was like, 'I want to play a chord,' and then it was like, 'I want to play another one, then play a song, then sing while playing the song.'

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

I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.

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 graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

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

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

I've done the country, done the pop-rock, done the super-hard electro.

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

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.