Quotes About Instruments

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

I have a collection of ukuleles. I meant to graduate to the guitar, but I never did.

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

When it came to rock, I was always drawn to guitars.

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

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

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

I'm pretty loyal to my guitars, you know, but then they're pretty loyal to me, too.

I still believe guitars will be around as long as there's rock music.

Some people collect this or that. I'm a musician; I collect guitars.

Vocally, I don't think analogue makes that much difference, but with guitars, it definitely makes some difference. With drums and bass, absolutely.

There are no electric guitars. 'Hunchback' has arias; it's operatic.

I probably own 100 guitars and all of them are electric.

We just played whatever we could get ahold of. If we were at a party and we had a banjo, a mandolin and guitar or 10 guitars, that's what we played that night.

I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.

The instruments you have are the right instruments for you, because you've been shaped by them. That's another law.

W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.

I never felt that I had enough music, - I wanted more instruments playing together; I wanted voices to be fuller and deeper.

I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and have family recitals and raise money for the church. I belonged to a wonderful church community that encouraged me to sing.

I love the tone of old, non-amplified, real acoustic fiddles, and Wood Violins are the closest thing I have found to that sound. They play beautifully!

Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones.

I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt combo with Marshall cabs.

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.