Lindsey Buckingham Quotes

To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.

These days I can really get the strings to snap if I want.

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

If you watch me for a long time, you'll really understand and appreciate the way I play.

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

Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

I play the way I do because it allows me to come up with the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

To me, the biggest notes and the longest notes are the easiest notes.

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

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing like the human voice. We couldn't do what we do without the classical training. It's a hard instrument to play. There are no frets, and it takes finesse and technique to play.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.