top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword."
Standard
Customized
More
"Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song."
Musicians
"It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier."
Love
"Songs are life in 80 words or less."
Life
"Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory."
Music
"The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying."
Saying
"Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life."
Life
"If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs."
Meaning
"I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success."
Success
"I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part."
Work
"I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first."
Music
More
"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I just go where the guitar takes me."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page