Duff McKagan Quotes

I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.

I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.

And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard.

When Dee Dee would start singing, he would stop playing the guitar, because he couldn't sing and play at the same time.

I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

I couldn't sing without a guitar. I like the way it feels to sing and be holding a guitar, even if I'm not playing it that much. All my idols that I grew up liking always had a guitar on them, but they didn't play it - Buddy Holly, John Lennon, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello. It's like having a partner with you.

I'm so crazy about making albums and singing and dancing.

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

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

I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.

A show isn't just a show, a show is entertainment; it's modeling, acting, singing and dancing all ripped into one, with the little time that we have to do it.

For me, this band and the music that I write and this touring thing that I do and playing in front of people, singing, and making a lot of noise on guitar - all that was more important than a lot of other things.

Well, I think at first, songs were sort of the vehicle which allowed me to be on the stage and get to hold a guitar and get to sing.

My favorite song to perform is 'Love of my Life.'