“I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.” WritingPlayAgeWantedSongTaughtGuitarBorrowed Author:Adrian Belew
“It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.” WellsPlaySongFunBandGuitarFolksSingers Author:Barry McGuire
“Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.” SoundBandApproachGuitarTraditionalLocksBassGuitaristMethodologyLock UpPlaying Bass Author:Matt Cameron
“I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.” LawPresidentTrainingGuitarUniversityLawyerFirmSecretaryBassGuitaristGlasgowLaw Firms Author:Gerard Butler
“I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.” WayMeanEasyPiecesWrittenGuitarEnjoyedSoloGuitarist Author:Marc Ribot
“In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.” ThinkingPlayPlayerJazzGuitarComplimentBassDrummerGuitaristPianistBass PlayersCompliments YouThinking AheadBass GuitarPlaying Bass Author:David Amram
“I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.” WayGuitarComplimentSongwritersContributingGuitaristLowes Author:Dave Edmunds