Phil Anselmo Quotes

I actually played guitar before I played drums. And I always play guitar on the Slipknot albums as well, as well as being responsible for a lot of the songwriting.

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

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

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

I play guitar all the time, and I'm constantly thinking of songs... Every time I pick up a guitar, I come up with different riffs, all different bands I've been in. Sometimes there is a song or riff that could only belong with Slipknot, and I just can't use it for anything else, regardless of whatever happened.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

I am so highly skilled that when I pick up a phrase and then pick up my guitar, a form comes out almost immediately - a song - and once I start, I have to finish it.

When we recorded 'Iowa,' we jammed, we went through the songs, we played as a band and we recorded as a band.

In 'Boondien' I worked with a band where everyone had their own instrument to play.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I didn't always enjoy playing music with the Trees.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

A Cat Stevens record isn't just Cat Stevens' ideas. It's Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right?

I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.

A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.