Anything Quote by Kirk Hammett

Whenever I start working on a song, I immediately try to forget everything, to empty my head. I try to approach it like,“This is…

— Edge

I kind of just got right into playing music because I could kind of stop thinking when I was concentrating on playing the guitar.

— Tash Sultana

I try to clear my mind of everything, I try to think of nothing. I just let my body act, the body can take…

— Lyoto Machida

When I feel like improvising, I always improvise on the guitar, never on the lute. It's as natural to me as breathing.

— Julian Bream

Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I go on…

— Sonny Rollins

My music is written with one goal in mind: to improvise. It's like explaining a great story in words, but without words, much faster…

— Allan Holdsworth

As a musician, you are all the music that you absorb into your mind; that just subconsciously connects.

— Kali Uchis

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

— A. C. Benson

When I play guitar, it's automatic. I don't try to do something; I just do it. And it's already so ingrained in what I…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I…

— John Frusciante

Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing…

— Jimmy Knepper

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

— Ziggy Marley