A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
Of course there is school and sports, but I also like X-Box 360. 'Black Ops 3' is one of my favorites. I also like to play the guitar and piano.
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That's it.
I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.
And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.
I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.
The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category.
I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.
When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.
During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.
It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.
As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele.
Fighting physically signifies spiritual weakness.
Buy laughter with tears, and you'll be rich forever.
A classic is read not to enjoy but only to be boast about it.
I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.
Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat.
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.
I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.
