Luke Combs Quotes

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

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

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.

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.

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

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.

I started playing guitar because of instrumental guitar music.

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.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

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

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

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.

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

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 started playing guitar when I was 14 and eventually gained the confidence to start singing a little bit.

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.

I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.

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.

When I picked up my guitar, I spent the first day learning the chord E, the second day A, then B7, and all of a sudden, I could play the blues.

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

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.