Rory Gallagher Quotes

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.

I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it and I'm learning more and more everyday.

I started playing the guitar when I was 14. I'm not superstitious about guitars, but I do need strings to be old because that's part of my sound, and I don't like steel strings.

You can play slide on any guitar, but to be serious about it you have a tough set of strings, otherwise you don't get the full attack - you can't dig in.

I play the guitar.

Some people play steel string beautifully, but I'm not exactly a world-class picker.

I'm glad I get singled out for my slide guitar-playing, which isn't that difficult to do. I didn't take guitar lessons, but I just love the way it sounds, almost like the human voice.

I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars aren't good for learning lead, because you can't play up very high on the neck and they take heavier-gauge strings which makes it hard to bend notes

I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.

There are a lot of cases where I'm using, if not an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar more as a rhythm instrument. Rather than blasting away, I use it to create more of an acoustic feel.

Tony MacAlpine not only plays guitar, but is a stunning classical piano player, so he can show how that influence molded his guitar playing.

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.

Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.

I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head.

It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style.

With slide guitar, you're just hanging this piece of glass on your hand. It's a really beautiful instrument in that it's so responsive, you're just slipping your hand back and forth.

My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.

I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them.

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.