Guitars Quotes

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

I'm full of dust and guitars.

I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

Tone on jazz guitars is a real tough issue.

You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.

It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.

I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars.

And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.

I'm a strong advocate for music. I think guitars are wonderful.

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.

Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.