Julien Baker Quotes

I'm learning on the guitar all the time.

My dad had a guitar that he gave me. I went to Walmart and bought a chord chart and hung it up in my room, and I was just trying to figure out how to play the guitar and put words with what I was learning.

I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.

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

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

I have no guitar technique.

What happens is people go, 'I want to play the guitar,' and the first thing they do is hit Google: 'How can I play this?' and the next thing you know, you've learned all these tricks, but you've never learned how to play rhythm guitar with a groove.

Dime knew the importance of every aspect of playing the guitar.

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.

You never learn everything on that guitar neck.

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

So I started to learn guitar right away.

As a youngster, I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.

I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales.

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

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

I would type in things like, 'How to play beginner songs on guitar,' and one of the first I learnt was 'Hey, Soul Sister' by Train. I taught myself these chords I didn't know the name of and slowly started to get the hang. I was obsessed with it.

After going to a few Keith Urban concerts, I thought, 'I'd really like to learn how to play guitar.' I studied Keith Urban a lot and how he performed.

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 don't really do scales... I mean, I play parts of them, but then I bail and start playing parts of other things. The term 'scale' feels very scripted to me because I'm an improv player.

I was learning guitar as the band was beginning, at least in terms of being a lead guitar player. I could write songs, but I couldn't really play solos.