Nuno Bettencourt Quotes

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

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.

I couldn't not play a Les Paul guitar. Les always used to point to my Strat and say, 'Why do you have that piece of crap around your neck?' I'd say, 'Yours are too heavy. I had to drill holes in it.'

I'm not a guitar collector. I own some guitars because I play.

For one reason or another, a lot of guys wind up with a guitar that isn't really right for them.

The first guitar I ever owned was a Kay SG copy. That cost like $35. Man, that was a terrible guitar.

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

I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.

Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.

I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

My first guitar was a Les Paul that I bought off a friend for 500 bucks. I worked a long time to save up enough money for it.

I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or anything like that.

I did splash out on a 1964 Fender Jaguar guitar in L.A.

I keep changing my stuff. I used to play through a Marshall JCM800, and then I also had a Randy Rhoads signature amp. So before I was playing EVH, I was playing an ODB pedal. I still have my Dunlop Jerry Cantrell wah pedal because I love that.

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

I use Bogner amps and custom-designed Schecter guitars with Seymour Duncan Invader pickups. I beef up my tone with a Boss CS- 3 Compression Sustainer. It's kinda like my secret weapon.

I've been playing for aeons now, but way, way back, I remember Eddie Van Halen came out, and I loved his playing. He was amazing. But then everyone started copying his guitars with Floyds, and I didn't.

I'm into playing guitars, not into figuring out what else goes on with them.

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster

I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.