Paul Westerberg Quotes

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.

I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.

Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it.

When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing a big powerful sound. I mean, no one ever forgets their first Marshall amp.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

I'm still like an excited kid playing guitar in front of the bedroom mirror.

I was a hard rocker when I was in high school.

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.

I've always loved the guitar. You see Jimi Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth, and OK, you know you're never going to be able to do that, but I always wanted to play an instrument of some sort.

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

I love playing the guitar.

I always loved rock 'n' roll.

I play guitar, and it's not a prop.

There is nothing wrong about being a rock n' roll guitar player.

I got into rock music at thirteen, listening to Van Halen, learned how to play the electric guitar.

I'm not a guitar hero.

It's like being in a trance, like I get this electric current through my fingertips. Sometimes I shake. People say I look like Hendrix when I'm about to rip a solo because I move my shoulders like he does and do the chewing.

I'm a rock and roll kid, but to me, rock and roll isn't just four idiots banging their instruments really loud.

My first guitar was a Les Paul that I bought off a friend for 500 bucks. I worked a long time to save up enough money for it.

I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I wouldn't want it to be heard by other people.