Philip Pullman Quotes

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.

When I was 11 years old, I started playing guitar.

In order to become a well-rounded musician, you have to master the three major aspects of guitar playing: the technical side, the musical side and the creative side.

I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.

I started playing guitar because of instrumental guitar music.

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

You never learn everything on that guitar neck.

I learned how to play guitar by playing along to Jane's Addiction records and Smashing Pumpkins records, things you can totally hear if you listen to my guitar.

I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the guys who strummed acoustic guitars at parties were the ones who got the attention. So I asked a friend to show me a few chords, and when I moved to L.A. I spent a lot of time practicing my guitar.

The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book.

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

I love playing the guitar.

I've started to look at guitar playing from more than just a standpoint of using certain modes and techniques.

I have a collection of ukuleles. I meant to graduate to the guitar, but I never did.

I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you know, it got to a point where on expert, you can only exceed to a certain point. And so, you know, I was like, 'Let's play real guitar. Let's not waste more time.' So, I got my mom, I told her to buy me a guitar for Christmas, and I started making music then.

My advice for someone just learning the ukulele would be to have fun with it and not take anything too seriously. Some songs that I think are great for beginners would be, 'House of Gold,' 'Riptide,' and 'I Don't Know My Name.'

I started playing when I was about 13, mainly because Dad had guitars lying around the house. My dad taught me my first three chords, and I taught myself from there.

I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco.

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

I started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12.

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.