Ed O'Brien Quotes

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.

I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.

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.

In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing with friends. Guitar inherently lends itself to be guitar music, especially when you're not good at guitar.

The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.

I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.

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.'

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.

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

I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.

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.

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.

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

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 play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

I'm one of those artists that doesn't actually hate my old hits. I love Boston music. I really like 'More than a Feeling.' After playing it to myself in a basement for such a long time, I'm happy to do it out on stage.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.