Jakob Dylan Quotes

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

All the really good guitar players - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, or even Bert Jansch or John Martin - I love all those people. But I didn't start out thinking that I would be a guitar player. In the beginning, I played the guitar so I could sing. I mainly concentrated on my voice.

I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.

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

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhythm chops hugg!

I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good. When you look at something that's really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.

I've always loved the guitar. You see Jimi Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth, and OK, you know you're never going to be able to do that, but I always wanted to play an instrument of some sort.

I started to play the guitar for a couple of years, which was fun. I still bring it out once in a while, could bust out a couple of songs, but I'm not very good at it.

I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.

I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me.

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

I play guitar, and I'm a decent basketball player - people like to play on my team.

If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.

For the record, Jeff Jarret cannot play guitar. Honky Tonk Man cannot play guitar. Elias? Guitar, piano, harmonica, drums, you name it. I can do anything.

I'm a decent writer, barely a decent guitar player, and a terrible singer.