Speech and Guitar?

Question

I need to do a speech about guitars, and I need answers to why people would want to play guitar.

Answer 1

"fun quotes"

Upon hearing the question "what are your reasons for playing classical guitar?" these are some of the answers received. Please submit yours, just for fun, and if we like it we will add it to the list. Reasons can be musical, physical, spiritual, or just for fun. email

"Because I love it."
"To learn more about music."
"To help my chops."
"So my parents would take my guitar playing seriously."
"To impress the girls."
"Its cheaper than buying a piano."
"Its portable, its polyphonic, and its cool!"
"So I can play ballad-like intros to rock songs."
"Enjoyment and relaxation."
"I'm studying to be a surgeon, and I want to learn how to control my hands."
"There's nothing better to do, and its better than sleeping all day."
"I can't do my homework NOW mom, I'm doin my guitar."
"So I can tell stories better."
"To prove those people wrong who said I had no class".
For me, it's like asking "Why do you breathe?"
"Some play golf, I play guitar."
"It's like time travel, you enter the time and mind of the composer as you
are playing."
"1. To escape to eden 2. To find contentment 3. To find myself"
"Easy. The 2" fretboard...."
"It gives you power over people who don't play guitar. It even gives you power over people who play guitar pickstyle, because they don't understand how you can sound good without at least a 3 piece band. "
I didn't choose the classical guitar; it chose me. I had no say in it but I
didn't resist.
Truly, I beleive it is the sexiest and most charming instrument ever built!
I play guitar to catch the ceaseless flow of quality in each passing moment.
With the endless tone color possibilities of the guitar, I can enjoy the
sound of most any stringed instrument. Whether it be the clanky sound of
a banjo or the signing qualities of the cello, the possibilities are
limitless.
"I need to do something abstractly beautiful. The guitar is rich in possibilities for personal challenge, growth and expression."
"I can let my guitar express everything that I can't say in my own words..."
"Music helped me when I needed it, I'm forever in debt to help back."
"Guitar playing and mathematics and zen and the mysteries of the universe are all linked, so playing guitar gets me closer to enlightenment."
"I like my wife and the guitar is like my wife: She's got a great figure,
she's got a slim neck, she's got sensitive strings to play with and I can
communicate with her without words."
"For the greatest reason of all... to glorify God."
"Because with the classical guitar there is always something new to learn or master, and just when you think you may have arrived you find something new to learn."
[from a letter by Giuseppe Verdi to his wife]
"...ah Music! What a GLORIOUS art... but what a wretched profession!"
"If you are what you do, when you don't - you aren't... Music is great, but if that's ALL you do, you have nothing to bring to the instrument that's intrinsically YOU. Be involved with other things - LIVE - then when you play, you have an entire range of experiences and emotions that will enlighten the music and make it truly yours." Anthony GLISE

Answer 2

because they are inspired by guitar idols, like hendrix and richards. or maybe they just want to learn to play an instrument and guitar is appealing to them

Answer 3

uh i play it for fun and to learn how to learn my favorite songs and sit around my house singing to em. i also play a guitar in a small band.

Answer 4

the basics of the guitar itself Head, Nut, Tuners, Neck, Body, Bridge, Pickups, Strings, Tremolo, ect The different types of these parts (locking nuts, locking tuners, different woods in the body, tremolo VS fixed bridges, how pickups work ect thats actually probably to much, so cut it down a little

Answer 5

cuz it's the most fun thing in the world !!