Willie Nelson Quotes

Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence.

So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night.

I've actually been playing music ever since I was a young a kid. I got my first guitar when I was about 7 or 8 years old, so I've always been doing music.

I had the opportunity to do a movie with Roger Daltrey of The Who. In the movie, I played a guitar student. Since I had to learn how to play somewhat for the movie, I was introduced to the guitar.

I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember.

It's nice to see bands you could see at a bar finally get a chance.

It's hard to say exactly when it all started or what show it was, but I started touring when I was 11. I played all over Dallas and Fort Worth, and eventually I was touring the whole state.

I played a lot of nightclubs in and around Tulsa till I was about 22, 24 years old, then I started travellin' around.

I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped.

I'd been gigging since I was 14, doing little competitions and pubs and clubs and old people's homes.

After school, instead of going into the restaurant scene, I very consciously took my guitar around everywhere I could, to Irish pubs and restaurants, and I played four nights a week to make ends meet.

I was an engineer for a long time. I was a sideman guitar player.

When I left school, I went and bought my own sound system, and me and my dad would just go along to all the pubs and clubs around the local area and just sort of do our own little cover shows.

Before my first album 'Born To Do It,' I used to DJ.

I've played in practically every city in Scotland, and loads of towns as well. I just feel very grateful that I'm able to do that.

I had been writing songs for awhile - since I was 14 - and playing guitar, but I never really knew how to go about making an actual career.

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

When I was 9 years old, I started performing around my hometown of San Antonio, Texas.

I don't want to be a lead player. I don't want to shred and play fast licks. I just want to be the best rhythm section ever.

I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up the guitar on my 20th birthday.

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing. So I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

Three weeks into being in Hollywood, I was playing with Slash through an ad in the paper.

I think I've been playing bass for as long as I've played guitar, and I love them both.

My first gig was at Carle Place High School, which is in Nassau County, Long Island, New York. I was 14, and I was invited to play with this band, and I was so excited, but I was really petrified.