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

Guitar, Play, Want

33

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

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

Exlpore more Guitar quotes

"That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar."

Tom Araya, American Musician

Guitar, Learning, Play, Songs

"I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar."

Alan Price, American Musician

Guitar,

"I'm not a good guitar player."

Adam Jones, American Musician

Guitar,

"I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands."

Adam Jones, American Musician

Guitar,

"Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar."

Mark White, American Musician

Guitar, Sound, Want

"Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis."

Andy Gibb, Australian Musician

Guitar, Play, Songs

"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."

Pete Townshend, British Musician

Guitar,

"I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice."

Boz Scaggs, American Musician

Guitar, Jazz, Voice

"Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it."

Juliana Hatfield, American Musician

Guitar, Interest

"I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes."

Ritchie Blackmore, English Musician

Guitar, Hearing, Interest

Explore more quotes by Graham Coxon

"When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead."

First

"I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish."

American

"There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s."

American

"With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it."

Life

"It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face."

People

"There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing."

Time

"It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity."

People

"It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play."

Music

"I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave."

Life

"I'm not going to pretend that I am the best thing in their life and they have to be totally loyal."

Life