Bert Jansch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.
-- Bert Jansch

#Guitar #Sticks #Guitar Playing
I think I come under the singer/songwriter badge. I've always written songs right from the very beginning. Because of my style of playing people tend of me more of a guitar player than a singer sometimes.
-- Bert Jansch

#Song #Thinking #Player
I'd always had an interest in guitar from about seven years old. But I first actually had lessons when I was about fifteen in Scotland, in Edinburgh. There was a folk club there and a girl called Jill Doyle taught me the guitar, who happened to be Davey Graham's sister. Davey Graham is one of my heroes and always has been. Fantastic guitar player. And he's had a strong influence on me all the way through.
-- Bert Jansch

#Girl #Strong #Hero

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
I'm not a good guitar player.
The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.
I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.
I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!
I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.
To create an interior, the designer must develop an overall concept and stick to it.
The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

Bert Jansch famous quotes

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