Rodney Atkins Quotes

In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing with friends. Guitar inherently lends itself to be guitar music, especially when you're not good at guitar.

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.

I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

My passion is music. That's where my heart is.

When I have downtime, music is a big part of my life. Not so much singing, but I play the guitar.

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Singing and playing have always gone hand-in-hand with me. I love 'em both equally.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

I try not to shut any doors before I even get there. I like doing music. I like singing. I love all music. Music kind of goes hand in hand with acting anyway.

My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how to make great music. Of course, part of it is his incredible talent. Who are the greatest jazz singers in the world? Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ray Charles.

I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice.

It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

I do have musical background; I sing.