Kiesza Quotes

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

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs... I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.

There's more to playing the guitar than being able to split your legs.

As a guitar player, you never stop learning, never stop honing your skills.

Of course, I'm a guitar player, so I'm thinking as a guitarist. I have to work within my physical limitations as to what my hands will do, and also the patterns I'm familiar with, and the places that my fingers are used to going.

I love all my guitar solos.

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

I've been playing swing chords for a long time.

I'm more of a strumming guitarist, instead of a lead soloist guitarist.

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

I have this guitar on which I occasionally kill time making up rock n' roll lyrics.

My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.

I was 11 years old, and I had been playing classical piano for three years, and suddenly the guitar came and landed in my arms. I fell in love with that instrument, and I still love it today. I love it so much.