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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.

— Florence Welch

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

For me, songwriting is really where it's at. I turn to use the guitar just to help me write the songs. That's it. As a result, my guitar playing suffers pretty horribly.

— Mark Knopfler

I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.

— Jamie Blackley

I started to play the guitar for a couple of years, which was fun. I still bring it out once in a while, could bust out a couple of songs, but I'm not very good at it.

— Dirk Nowitzki

I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.

— Andy Rourke

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

— John Fahey

When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

— Sam Hunt

I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.

— James Vincent McMorrow

✗Opposing Perspectives

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

— Courtney Barnett

When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.

— Drake Bell

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

— Chris Daughtry