If you don't know the blues. . . there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.
I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.
Navigating with a partner makes it half as difficult. We keep each other in check. It's not like she [Angie Marr] was ever a quiet little wifey wife behind the scenes. She's exactly like me. She's very smart. We're very lucky that we've always wanted the same things. She loves guitar music, she loves important records, and our lives are about records and shows and great bands.
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
I'm always interested in very, very futuristic music and bridging the gap between the physicality of organic guitar music and trying to translate that into something electronic is really fascinating.
We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.
We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.
To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.
I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.
If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying.
Argentina is a very interesting culture because unlike Europe and the US, they did not abandon rock and roll music, they did not turn their backs on it. It's an important part of their culture. So guitar music is an important part of their culture. So me being into rock music, I get respect working there, which wasn't happening in Europe or in the US.
