"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar."

Guitar, School

18

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar."

Exlpore more Guitar quotes

"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."

Brian Eno, British Musician

Guitar, Play

"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"

Ken Hensley, English Musician

Guitar, Open, Play, Sound

"For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar."

Marc Almond, British Musician

Guitar, Old, Play, Song

"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."

Sheryl Crow, American Musician

Guitar,

"The guitar chose me."

Charlie Byrd, American Musician

Guitar,

"I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock."

Mick Mars, American Musician

Guitar, Learning, Thinking

"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."

Eric Clapton, British Musician

Guitar, Worth

"It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam."

Graham Coxon, German Musician

Guitar, Play, Want

"I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable."

Robin Trower, English Musician

Guitar, Want

"If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet."

Andy Summers, English Musician

Guitar, Needs, Sound

Explore more quotes by Rick Springfield

"I'll watch any show on the History Channel."

History

"Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do."

Music

"Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can."

Actor

"I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated."

Fans

"I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane."

Time

"I am a bit more of a whore with my acting than I am with my music. I am not a whore with my music."

Music

"I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it."

Pretty

18

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Guitar quotes

"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."

"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"

"For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar."

"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."

"The guitar chose me."

"I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock."

"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."

"It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam."

"I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable."

"If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet."

Explore more quotes by Rick Springfield

"I'll watch any show on the History Channel."

"Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do."

"Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can."

"I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated."

"I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane."

"If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens."

"Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me."

"I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love."

"I am a bit more of a whore with my acting than I am with my music. I am not a whore with my music."

"I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it."