I worship pianos like they are prize diamonds, and I never willfully do damage to them. But I grew up playing guitars, and you treat a guitar like a best friend or a little brother or a lover you have a tempestuous relationship with.
I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar.
My brother was very important to me. And he played guitar. So that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be a guitar player. So he was the first one to inspire me to do something with my life. And I was so glad that he was there.
When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.
'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music,...
The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room anyway. Thank goodness. But I've always contributed guitar parts to every band I've ever been in, so I'll always play the axe.
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.
I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.
My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.
I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.
I sing a bit and play guitar.
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.
I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.
I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.
I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.
I always enjoyed singing; I played guitar.
