Cass McCombs Quotes

I do write a lot of folky songs naturally.

All I do is sit at home and play guitar. That's seriously what I do.

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.

And I only really like to play the acoustic guitar.

Before I even pick up a guitar, usually the words are done. So I'm not first and foremost a musician. I'm first and foremost a writer.

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

When I was younger and played acoustic guitar music, I got a lot of Sheeran comparisons, along with guys like Paolo Nutini and James Morrison.

I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.

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 just want to be a guy with a guitar.

I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.

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.

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

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

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

I just play the guitar and write songs.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

On my fourth or fifth birthday, a guitar was given to me, and I made a new friend. A very loud friend.

That is the music that I have always wanted to play: real, genuine guitar music.

I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.

I learned classical guitar as a kid at about 7 or 8 years old. When I was about 14, I started dabbling in songwriting. That's when I got into the folky singer-songwriter style.

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

I don't compose rap songs or party numbers. I only compose folk.

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.