Paul Gilbert Quotes

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

I've been classically trained in piano since I was little. My father was a pianist, so they started me early.

I'm not capable of wielding the guitar like Jimmy Page, one of my all-time favorite guitarists. My skill set is more based on the grinding, sort of human heartbeat - almost playing the guitar more like a drum.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

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

I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

I play no instruments.

Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

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

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I am musical. I play guitar.

I'm never gonna be a Carlos Santana - an instrumentalist. I just like songs. It's three minutes of something that can be very powerful.

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.