Jeremy Renner Quotes

I play guitar, so that's kind of my outlet, but its just something I want to keep for myself.

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

Yeah, nothing feels better than knowing that I can put a guitar in my hands at any time and rip - even when I'm taking a crap!

It's my only freedom, music, and I'm not going to give it up to anyone else.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

It's just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

So the thing is to put out music for music's sake.

I love being in the studio. Expressing myself that way is really cool.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

Making music is fantastic.

I'm very hands-on with my own music.

I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music is to actually play it, at least in a way that made the most sense to me.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.