“Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?” FirstsPlayAbleSoundBlackDifferencesWhiteEmotionMusicColorPicksDown AndNotesPaintGuitarExtremes Author:Les Paul
“I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.” ThinkingWritingMusicHeardMinutesPicksGuitarFingertips Author:Michelle Branch
“At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes? I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.” LongAgeAbleNamesMusicPicksNotesPianoTunes Book:The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays
“One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.” FeelsDifferentBeautifulNextMusicMastersFoolOne DayMusicianPicksGuitarNext DaySamenessMusicianship Author:Tommy Emmanuel
“I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.” IfsWayWantYearsDoePlayMusicPicksTwentiesJazzWhat You WantFifteenMonkJazz MusicJazz MusicianPlaying Jazz Author:Thelonious Monk