Pete Seeger Quotes

When I feel like improvising, I always improvise on the guitar, never on the lute. It's as natural to me as breathing.

To be honest, I'm one of the least-technical guitar players around. I just want a guitar to feel good and sound good. That's it, period.

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing like the human voice. We couldn't do what we do without the classical training. It's a hard instrument to play. There are no frets, and it takes finesse and technique to play.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.

I've been playing since I was about 7. I never really used a pick very much. I mean, once in a while, if you're in a festive mood, you might draw a little blood, but nothing significant... But my hands aren't abused, really.

I play in tune like a cello player and use legitimate vibrato. There are no tricks; it's just all in the hands!

I think that's why so many school bands start on guitars: because they hide their mistakes with the distortion.

A lot of people don't realize that guitar playing is very much like singing or playing any of the glissando-type instruments - you have to do it in tune.

It's actually not that hard to play guitar in a rock band.

I have been using small teardrop jazz picks since I was, like, 14.

Some people play steel string beautifully, but I'm not exactly a world-class picker.

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

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

I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!