I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.
I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.
I play the guitar.
The lute I use has 10 courses and 19 strings, which is quite a lot of strings and a quite different fingerboard width from a classical guitar. I use a combination of flesh and nail when plucking the strings.
When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing guitar has given me such a wonderful life, and I'm grateful for it.
I've been playing electric guitar since I was 11, and I love the blues.
I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
Some of my favorite harmonics are located between frets. There are two really cool ones between the 2nd and 3rd frets that I use a lot.
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
Now, when I have a four-string that I take on the road with me, it's a regular Martin. I bought a decent Martin with a pickup in it, and then I just take off the strings and have four strings on it.
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.
Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.
The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings.
The guitar chose me.
My father played one of the first electric guitars in England. He built his own in 1940, because you couldn't buy them in those days. He used three telephone pickups under the strings, which gave chronic distortion on chords but was quite good on single notes.
The guitar is the most beautiful of all instruments.
The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.
Let's face it - the electric guitar is way sexier than the acoustic.
The electric guitar's a pretty cheesy thing when you think about it, still working on those bits of wire and magnets for its sound. It's all of the things that are wrong with it that have made it the unique instrument it is.
A guitar is so tactile, and when you're playing bends - and bending notes is a big part of my style - there are so many notes within the note you're bending from and the note you're bending up to.
It's a complicated relationship with a guitar. I love the Bullet, for sure.
I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.
I started playing the ukulele in the year 2000. That sounds so futuristic saying it like that. The year 2000.
But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.
Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.
