Guitar Quotes

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

I absolutely love the Philharmonic. I also love rock guitar.

The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.

I just go where the guitar takes me.

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.

It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.