If I don’t practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.
I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don’t have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.
Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling.
I’m not a good guitar player.
Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
My God is rock’n’roll. It’s an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It’s the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.
I just love playing guitar, so that’s what I’m going to do.
When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I’d write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I’d sit there writing songs with my guitar.
I just go where the guitar takes me.
Starts out slow and then fizzles out altogether.
A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes.
You can only make a good noise on the guitar if you’re committed. Little careful noise doesn’t work. You have to be bold.
If you can’t play as good or as fast as me, just give up, sell your guitar on eBay and kill yourself.
My first love was the sound of guitar.
When I was 17 I got a guitar for my birthday and started discovering Bob Dylan and James Taylor and the whole ’60s thing, and that made me want to make songs, to go beyond just playing an instrument. I needed to write I guess.
I sing a bit and play guitar.
I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.
I play guitar because it lets me dream out loud.
When God plays guitar he uses Jeff Beck’s hands.