Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.
When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
I've always expressed myself on guitar, and so I look at it as another voice that is available to say what you need to say.
I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.
I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.
One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player friend of mine, and I sang and played the guitar on it.
I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.
It's always a pleasure when you can compose guitar parts from a strong vocal and not just put the melody on top of guitar riffs.
I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.
Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.
My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
I've played guitar in so many different styles, and I want to revisit them all.
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.
I played guitar when I was a kid a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.
My dad got me the same mic I use on everything now - this $200 mic from Guitar Center.
That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
I guess I thought I was Elvis Presley but I'll tell ya something. All Elvis did was stand on a stage and play a guitar. He never fell off on that pavement at no 80 mph.
And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.
I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.
I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.
I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.
We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.
I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.
My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.
I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.
Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.
So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody.
