Everything I ever worried about turned out exactly as it was going to, despite my anxious moments to the contrary.
I can play the air guitar really, really well.
I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.
I live, breathe, and sleep guitars.
Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.
You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.
The golden rule for playing the bass is that's it all about feel, not just plonking away. You need to feel the sound, not using a pick or a plectrum - which has meant plenty of calluses on my fingers.
I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.
My brother plays guitar and base and writes. His name is Chase Ryan.
Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.
I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.
About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting.
If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
I've always liked the electric guitar better. Even though the acoustic can be a very sexy and mysterious instrument, I can go to way more places with an electric.
As far as people, I've always loved Tony Iommi's sound, just the grittiness that was in that era of metal where it wasn't too fuzzy, and you could still hear the guitar and the fingers, but it still had this chunky, meat-and-potatoes sound to it.
My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
The guitarist always looks a bit clever because he's got so many strings and apparently knows what to do with them.
Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.
Worry is interest paid before it's due.
As a kid, I loved any guitarists, whether it was Elvis Presley, Lonnie Donegan, Chuck Berry or even the cowboy guitarists like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. The image of the guitar appealed to me.
If you're gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it.
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don’t go. I’m too worried to go. I don’t want to interrupt my worrying to go.
I'm a worrier by nature. My husband says that if I'm not worried about something, I'm worried about what I've forgotten to be worried about.
The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.
