Dan Hawkins Quotes

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.

I think that's why so many school bands start on guitars: because they hide their mistakes with the distortion.

To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.

When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing a big powerful sound. I mean, no one ever forgets their first Marshall amp.

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

If what you do for a living is play drums or bass, then that defines you. You don't want to be some guy missing notes here and there; you want to really speak with it.

I have a favorite blue Telecaster. It's an old '60-something, which I play at every show. That's probably my favorite all-around stage guitar.

It's actually not that hard to play guitar in a rock band.

I have been using small teardrop jazz picks since I was, like, 14.

As a guitar player, playing instrumental music is a blast.

I've always been a little bit in the background as a singer and even as an acoustic-guitar player, although I crank it up and rock with my Marshall stacks, too.

I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument - learning to do your craft - that's the most important thing! It's not about what goes on in a computer!

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

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

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that's not something I could do.

When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.