Lou Barlow Quotes

All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

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.

All of my acoustic playing came from my songwriting. All of the chords I've learned and all of the voicings I play them in are a direct result of composing.

When I first started fingerpicking, the first thing I learned was 'Don't Think Twice It's Alright' from Bob Dylan.

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

I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.

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

I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

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

I learned classical guitar as a kid at about 7 or 8 years old. When I was about 14, I started dabbling in songwriting. That's when I got into the folky singer-songwriter style.

My father started me off on the guitar, and we learned classical guitar together.

I got a toy guitar at a fundraiser and was trying to write songs with it that were ridiculous. After a week, my parents bought me a real acoustic guitar, and I started taking guitar lessons.

Usually I write on guitar.

Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.

I'd rather be known as a songwriter than a guitarist, although I love to play the guitar.

When I picked up guitar, it wasn't like, 'OK, I'm going to be Kenny Chesney.' It was like, 'I want to play a chord,' and then it was like, 'I want to play another one, then play a song, then sing while playing the song.'

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

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.

All I'm trying to do is simply play guitar and elicit this creativity from the instrument.