Quotes About Artistry

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.

I just rediscovered my guitar.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.

Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

Generally, I think of myself as a guitar player, but when I do find the right song to sing lead on, I try to do my best.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing.

I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.

I don't really make a distinction because when I'm acting, I feel like an actor, and when I DJ, I feel like a DJ, and when I play the guitar, I feel like a guitar player. I don't know which I prefer. I think I just like to perform, in some way or another.

I love singing my own stuff, but I also love being a guitar player. Doing both keeps things interesting.

I'm full of dust and guitars.

I don't like to do any editing on guitars. I think the more editing you do, it just takes away from the feel of the performance.

I live, breathe, and sleep guitars.

Dawes is a rock 'n' roll band playing guitars, writing songs, working in a certain tradition. Through our attitude and personality, I hope, you can hear a song and go, 'That's a Dawes song.'

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

I liked Guru Dutt, the way he used songs and the way he shot songs. He was a class apart.

I was brought up on Black Sabbath, David Bowie, 50 Cent, and Guru. And it all comes out in my own music somewhere.

I want to be the Guru Dutt of the world.

I had between 20 and 40 songs for 'Detox,' and I just couldn't feel it. Usually, I can hear the sequence of an album as I'm going, but I wasn't able to do that. I wasn't feeling it in my gut.

I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.

There are those songs that hit you in the gut - when you're the one performing it and you see the effect it has on people, there's something so powerful in that.

There's never been a show where I did not literally offer my guts on that stage.