Gary Moore

Songs that are just a vehicle for a guitar solo are very empty, just an excuse for a guitarist to show what…

— Gary Moore

I always think it would be great to play clubs again, and then when I do I don't like it because I…

— Gary Moore

I wasn't really worrying too much about what anybody thought: if you do that you shut yourself down.

— Gary Moore

I really want to concentrate of the blues again and do it properly, which is something I feel I didn't do before.

— Gary Moore

When we came to America before, we opened shows in arenas for groups like Rush. It's always been a case of playing…

— Gary Moore

I've always thought of music in the long term. I've always tried to write songs that people could listen to a couple…

— Gary Moore

It used to be so easy... to give my heart away, then I found out… there's a price you have to pay…

— Gary Moore

We're losing the whole point: music is not to impress people, music has to stand up on its own and guitar solos…

— Gary Moore

Whenever I was in the dressing room on my own, I'd start playing blues to myself. One night, Bob Daisley, the bass…

— Gary Moore

Lots of kids when they get their first instrument hammer away at it but they don't realise there are so many levels…

— Gary Moore

These guitar institutes and things like that, I think they take away people's identity and they're actually encouraging a lot of people…

— Gary Moore

When you get into the habit of leaving a space, you become a much better player for it. If you've got an…

— Gary Moore

Obviously I don't play the same way as Peter, but I could do a passable imitation of Peter Green; if you gave…

— Gary Moore

I'm not as a studied, technically, as you might think. My technique has really evolved naturally over the years from watching other…

— Gary Moore

Like a lot of the newer bands, like the more poppy kinda bands, although they make really good records and they produce…

— Gary Moore

The rhythmic feel of 'Dark Days In Paradise' is completely different to anything I've ever done before. There's a lot of drum…

— Gary Moore

I learnt fairly quickly that that was what I wanted to be - a guitarist - because it was the first thing…

— Gary Moore