Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.
Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.
Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..I might as well go back over yonder, way back across the hills, if my baby dont love me no more....i know her...sister will
There was so much good and different music back then and you'd just keep moving through it and discovering more new stuff. I went through my Black Sabbath phase before I even started playing guitar.
When I sit down and play the guitar, Im 20 years old again.
Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
Do I start with the lyrics? No. Quite honestly, it's the opposite. I generally get the melody first - I kinda fiddle around on the guitar and work out a melody. The lyrics are there to flesh out the tone of the music. I've tried before to do things the other way around, but it never seems to work. Obviously, I spend a lot of time on my lyrics, I take them very seriously, but they're kinda secondary. Well, equal, maybe. I think sometimes that if you write a poem, it should remain as just a poem, just... words.
I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.
If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.
Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.
Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.
My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar
The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.
The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.
I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
I didn't look up and say, "Oh, man, if I learn how to play a guitar I could make not much money, but I'd make a decent living like Eric Clapton or somebody." There wasn't nothing like that out there.
I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.
I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song
I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.
You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.
I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.
I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc.
I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.
