Lee Ranaldo Quotes

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

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

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs... I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.

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

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

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

For me, songwriting is really where it's at. I turn to use the guitar just to help me write the songs. That's it. As a result, my guitar playing suffers pretty horribly.

And I only really like to play the acoustic guitar.

Usually I write on guitar.

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.

Most of everything I've ever written actually was written on acoustic. 'Do You Feel' was written on electric. 'I'm in You' was written on piano.

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

When I used to write songs, especially on my own, it was just me and a guitar.

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.