If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.
I collect many ethnic instruments, and as a guitarist, I'm usually able to play any sort of instrument - as long as it has strings. That's why I like to experiment with different sounds.
People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.
All I know is, I play the guitar, beat it out, and sing a song that has some damn resonance that we feel as musicians. We send it out and people get it, and that's a good thing.
Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.
The potential for the saxophone is unlimited.
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.
My guitar playing touches so many different areas of the form, but the important thing is what it represents across the form.
Your solos should be as interesting as any other part of the song.
My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.
What I love is when I play gigs, it's just me and a guitar - very simple, very direct and intimate, and you hear every lyric, and you hear every detail.
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
When Tom Morello picks up the guitar, I'm sure what he sees is totally different from what I do, but I love the way he plays.
I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.
When I play the clarinet, I am 100 percent myself. It is as if it is part of my body. I can play whatever I think. Let me just read a melody and make it as sweet as I can.
I love what I do. I love playing music.
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
Violin was my first form of expression - and is still in a lot of ways.
I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.
There's great cars, and then there's Aston Martins. Same thing for the 1959 Les Paul - it's an authentic piece of art that can never truly be replicated, and its mysteries are special.
Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music, man - it's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat.
I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'
Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.
