Lara St. John Quotes

I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads.

Music is about depth. Music is about harmony. Music is about notes and tones.

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

Music is about textures as well as melody.

You never learn everything on that guitar neck.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

I cannot say that I know a lot about scales, but I can write songs.

There are certain choices you make as a songwriter, based on vowel sounds and melody and chord changes.

Of course, I'm a guitar player, so I'm thinking as a guitarist. I have to work within my physical limitations as to what my hands will do, and also the patterns I'm familiar with, and the places that my fingers are used to going.

I practice all the scales. Everyone should know lots of scales. Actually, I feel there are only scales. What is a chord, if not the notes of a scale hooked together?

You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios.

I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

I really love things with melody.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

I love playing the guitar.

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

There are only so many chords and notes in the world.

I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.

Certainly, as a guitarist, I was aware of descending chromatic lines and arpeggios long before 1968.

There's more to playing the guitar than being able to split your legs.

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm and, I think, should elicit an emotion of happiness or of celebration or of sadness or of sorrow or of love or laughter, whatever.

I knew if I wanted to improvise over chord changes, I'd have to figure out all the scales that went with all those chords.