#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

I'm full of dust and guitars. ↗

— Syd Barrett

#full #guitars #i

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

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. ↗

— Gary Allan

#ate #barbecue #compete #drank #each

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#drums #guitars #plays #son

I don't know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don't know, who knows? Maybe I'll start building guitars for a living. ↗

— Guy Clark

#building #couple #grandkids #guitars #i

He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around. ↗

— Julian Lennon

#dad #down #guitars #know #like

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. ↗

— Colin Hay

#coast #course #drums #father #guitars

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#dad #did #electric #guitars #kind