I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano.
I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.
In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.
Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.
Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.
When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.
That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.
I found I could speak through the guitar. Because you have the feel of the strings with both hands and it's up against your solar plexus, it's real, and so there's nothing between you and the music.
I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
The guitar speaks for me and it says things - hopefully - for everybody that I play for.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
I've always expressed myself on guitar, and so I look at it as another voice that is available to say what you need to say.
