Johnny Christ Quotes

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

Certainly, as a guitarist, I was aware of descending chromatic lines and arpeggios long before 1968.

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

It's amazing how a lot of the metal guys have never strummed! And it's not that challenging, but it really opens up a lot of doors in ways they might not have imagined.

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.

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.

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.

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

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 think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.

Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.

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.

When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that's how I learned to play the guitar.

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

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

I haven't learned anything new on guitar since high school. And I think it's time to learn something.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

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

When I was six years old, Mom and Dad gave me a guitar for my birthday, and Daddy taught me the chords to 'You Are My Sunshine.'

One day, I would love to learn how to play piano and guitar.

I used to aspire to being more of a traditional bass player, to be honest. People say I play it like a guitar - and I was a guitar player when I was growing up. I started learning when I was eight, and that's what I was fascinated with in my teen years.