If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs. Zakk Wylde American Musician More Zakk Wylde Quotes 1
We got our start at this little club back in Nashville at this place called the Fiddle and Steel Guitar Bar on Mondays and Tuesdays. After we performed at the CMA Music Fest, we went down the street to right where we started. Those people were freaked out! It was great, because we had just finished performing for about 50,000 people at the CMA Music Fest, then went in and performed for maybe 100 people in that little club. Gary LeVox More Gary LeVox Quotes 1
I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting. Amanda Seyfried American Actress More Amanda Seyfried Quotes 1
I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments. Tommy Shaw American Musician More Tommy Shaw Quotes 0
I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill. Bryan White American Musician More Bryan White Quotes 0
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. Paul Westerberg American Musician More Paul Westerberg Quotes 0
I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making. Ian Williams American Musician More Ian Williams Quotes 0
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. Paul Simon American Musician More Paul Simon Quotes 0
My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it. Paul Simon American Musician More Paul Simon Quotes 0
Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together. Daniel Smith American Politician More Daniel Smith Quotes 0
If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy. Elliott Smith American Musician More Elliott Smith Quotes 0
I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick. Carl Wilson American Musician More Carl Wilson Quotes 0
I've played piano and guitar when I was younger. Debra Wilson American Comedian More Debra Wilson Quotes 0
I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life. Kip Winger American Musician More Kip Winger Quotes 0
I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself. Johnny Winter American Musician More Johnny Winter Quotes 0
I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers. Johnny Winter American Musician More Johnny Winter Quotes 0
Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different. Bobby Womack American Musician More Bobby Womack Quotes 0
So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others. Lee Ann Womack American Musician More Lee Ann Womack Quotes 0
So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to. Lee Ann Womack American Musician More Lee Ann Womack Quotes 0
God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play. Link Wray American Musician More Link Wray Quotes 0
Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this! Zakk Wylde American Musician More Zakk Wylde Quotes 0
The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work. George Benson More George Benson Quotes 0
When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's gone. And how bad life is and all that. Why can't it be something happy with the blues? Why can't it have a hip-hop beat to which you can do the dances of today ? Ike Turner More Ike Turner Quotes 0
I put together one song, Bonnie Raitt put together a song. Ah, what's his name, the other guitar player? Gatemouth Brown! Yeah, he did a side on Joe Louis Walker. Ike Turner More Ike Turner Quotes 0