Creativity Quote by Kenny Hickey

It lands like a shrug with a punchline: a musician admitting his own limits while quietly reminding you what “enough” already looks like. “Aww, come on man” is pure band-room vernacular, the kind of friendly protest that doubles as a social cue: stop escalating the challenge, stop turning the gear conversation into a masculinity contest. Then the line snaps into the real joke - “I can barely handle 6 strings” - a self-deprecating exaggeration from someone who, by any reasonable measure, can obviously handle them. That’s the trick: he lowers his own status on purpose to deflate the myth that virtuosity is measured by complication.

The likely context is the eternal guitarist arms race: more strings, lower tunings, more knobs, more “progress.” Extended-range guitars get sold as evolution; Hickey frames them as an unnecessary burden. He’s not attacking innovation so much as puncturing its premise. In heavy music especially, there’s a recurring anxiety that simplicity equals incompetence, that a straight-ahead riff is somehow less “serious” than technical sprawl. This line flips that: the discipline is in choosing the blunt instrument and still making it speak.

It also reads as a small act of craft humility. By joking that six strings are already plenty, he’s signaling that expression isn’t hiding in extra hardware. It’s in restraint, groove, and the confidence to let the song - not the spec sheet - do the flexing.