#guitars

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went. ↗

— Jeff Beck

#marriage #music #marriage

My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#crappy #doing #early #encouraged #first

I was ten when I heard the music that ended the first phase of my life and cast me hurtling into a new horizon. Drenched to the skin, I stood on Dunoon’s pier peering seawards through diagonal rain, looking for the ferry that would take me home. There, on the everwet west coast of Scotland, I heard it: like sonic scalpels, the sounds of electric guitars sliced through the dreich weather. My body hairs pricked up, each one a willing receiver for the Thunder-God grooves. To my young ears, the sound of these amplified guitars was angelic (although, with hindsight, I don’t suppose angels play Gibson guitars at ear-bleeding volume). A voice that suggested vocal chords of polished silver soared alongside razor-sharp overdriven riffs. I knew that I was hearing the future. ↗

— Mark Rice

#heavy-metal #mark-rice #metallic-dreams #rite-of-passage #rock-music

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#band #because #did #done #dvd

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting. ↗

— Daisy Berkowitz

#collecting #guitars #i #into #nine

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#common #common cause #guitars #i #make

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles. ↗

— Buddy Guy

#ask #because #bells #bells and whistles #cars

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

— Adam Jones

#gibson #guitars #i #les #paul

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. ↗

— Jack White

#battle #bent #bit #conquer #express

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. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#been #cotton #cotton fields #days #electric