Quotes About Guitars

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.

I'm a huge fan of sing-songy lyrics and loud guitars. Whatever punk band does that gets a gold star!

To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.

I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.

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

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.

If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable.

I just woke up the other day and realized that I have been collecting guitars and amps my whole life and I just don't have room for a lot of them anymore. I have decided to sell some of the nicer pieces.

Lindsey hates to write lyrics, though. Maybe that's why some of his songs are so negative. [Laughs] He'll have all these beautiful songs that are instrumentals for months. They have gorgeous melodies, layer upon layer of guitars. I exercise to his tapes, practice ballet to them. Then he'll write the lyrics for this beautiful song and it'll have a different feeling than the music.

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

I'm full of dust and guitars.

I don't like to do any editing on guitars. I think the more editing you do, it just takes away from the feel of the performance.

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

Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.

I've been buying guitars since 1964, and you fool yourself into thinking it's the last one.

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.

One of these days, when I get tired of it all, I'll keep six guitars and the amps I'm using, and I'll have a big old auction for charity.

I love the beards and the cars and the girls and the different guitars, but I'm not at all caught up in the image thing.

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