Andres Segovia Quotes

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

As a musician, I don't think I'm the greatest guitar player. I'm a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.

My first real real guitar I had was a Charvel, model 1 and that was when I was 15, I think, I got that.

One thing I really hate about people who play both acoustic and electric is if they try to play electric style on an acoustic guitar. You must develop it as a totally different thing.

I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.

Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.

There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it's all about.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?

Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume knob and the tone control all at the same time - creating harmonics that no human being should be able to hit.

I do a very poor man's pedal steel on the Stratocaster.

I have a good time doing 'Give Me Back My Man.' Keith Strickland can really fly on the guitar.

Everyone played a bit of guitar in our family.

My dad played a little bit of piano and guitar, but not that professionally. I saw him play, and I said, 'I want to play. I want to try this instrument.'

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

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.

The guitar is the ultimate vehicle for expression and composition for me. It's a part of my DNA!

The Fender Precision is my instrument, my beloved Precisions.

I'll only pick up my guitar if something is knocking on the door. Once the melodies have sort of been bothering me for a time, then I pick up my guitar and try to find them. But only if they want to be found.

I got this cheap guitar, and then I fell in love with it and basically put down the keyboard.

Music and musical instruments were proximal to my life from very early on - I took piano lessons for a brief time, but then my dad had a guitar and when he was not playing it, I would pick it up and mess with it. He jokes that I used to complain that it hurt my fingers.

Something people might not know about me is, I like playing the guitar.

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