The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.
I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
I don't know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on, if there was something in me that didn't want to learn an instrument - because I couldn't have been that incompetent!
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.
I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
I like to say, 'I hit every type of music in a show, and I play the people, not the instruments.'
I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.