I'm uptight in general, and it's hard for me to play in a situation where I'm not rehearsed or I feel like I'm not prepared. So it's always hard for …

- Bill Orcutt

A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.

- Bill Orcutt

It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I had a compulsion to do it. I just had to in …

- Bill Orcutt

I definitely have a different perspective on music in general. But once I actually have a guitar in my hands, I think I disappear into the same black…

- Bill Orcutt

In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that. Maybe in Harry Pussy I was listening to mo…

- Bill Orcutt

With a four-string, the middle range is less of an option. That kind of 5th that you play on those A and D strings isn't there. So a lot of tradition…

- Bill Orcutt

I did pull out my old Telecaster, and have been thinking I'd like to play that loud with a drummer. But I haven't actually done that yet.

- Bill Orcutt

I don't think I had a specific moment when I thought, "I'm not going to play music anymore." I just played less and got involved in other things.

- Bill Orcutt

I've found that since I've been playing the acoustic, listening to a horn player has left me thinking, well, what can I do with that? But somehow pia…

- Bill Orcutt