Charlie Byrd Quotes

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

I play the guitar.

I think I was born to be a songwriter.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.

It's a complicated relationship with a guitar. I love the Bullet, for sure.

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.

I'd like to know how to play the guitar.

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

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

The guitar is my whole life.

I started guitar when I was like thirteen. I had a friend whose dad had an electric guitar. In sixth grade or seventh grade I went over and played it and immediately I was super excited by the whole thing.

I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me.

The clarinet chose me more than I chose the clarinet.

I didn't get into music; music got into me.

I started playing guitar when I was nine and just fell in love with that - I've been playing nonstop ever since.

I feel like I was born to make music.

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'

I'm always playing guitar.

I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.