When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.
Jackson Rathbone can really play the guitar. Our taste in music is not exactly the same, but we found common ground with Radiohead's Creep, with which he then serenaded me.
I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get together and play.
You've got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many TV shows. It fulfills me. There are two things about it I like: It makes me happy, and it makes other people happy.
I'm more of a strumming guitarist, instead of a lead soloist guitarist.
I won't be able to live without my guitar, my phone or my boots on tour.
I was never pushed into the business. I wanted to play the guitar. When my dad found out I could play pretty good he took me into the studio one day. I did my first session for his label. We did quite a few sessions up there.
I'm singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about an hour from Memphis. So all that music that I grew up with - the Stax music and early rhythm n' blues - I'm doing that. I'm actually getting out from behind my guitar and I'm singing.
The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.
I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.
What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.
I give myself time with a guitar and PA to let my subconscious do its thing. This happens repeatedly over a period of time, and slowly, a set of songs emerge that make some sort of sense to me as a body of work that turns into an album.
"The Hallmark Sessions" is an extraordinary release. Breau plays beautiful chords (sounding a little like Johnny Smith in spots) and inventive single-note lines. It is remarkable that this music was not released until 2003, but a happy event that it was finally put out. This is a must for Breau fans and an important release for all jazz guitar lovers.
I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.
A guitar for me is pretty much strictly in the context of writing songs for my band, coming up with ideas with my band, and then being able to perform those songs as best as I can on stage - that's what the guitar for me has always been.
The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.
My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.
Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.
There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement. But I think [I don't do that] partially because I'm still a loner on the guitar and banjo.
The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.
It's really very easy for me to be in The Cardinals, because I bring my voice, my guitar, and my songs to them, and then we all play around to find out what works.
It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.
I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano
