For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.
I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I t...
[Nigel Tufnel is showing Marty DiBergi one of his favorite guitars] Nigel Tufnel: The sustain, listen to it. Marty DiBergi: I don't hear anything. Nigel Tufnel: Well you would though, if it were playing.
I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, ...
Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear.
I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was a...
I would prefer it if people thought that I didn't work hard, that I just played the guitar for three minutes a week and was like, 'Check out this song - what do you think?' That would be ideal. I would prefer telling people that I'm just truly talent...
Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn't read a note.
Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.
My dad is a huge rock n' roll lead guitar fan.
My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
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.
It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.
I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.
I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.
Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
