Guitar Quotes

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, ‘Where did you get your style from?’ I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That’s the best way I could explain it.

There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn’t be able to sound like.

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.

I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!

I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

Everything that came later… the roots are all there in the first album.

My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.