Jim Root Quotes

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

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

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

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.'

As for the first guitar I actually bought, I believe it was a Cherry Red Kramer! I think I bought it because Eddie Van Halen played Kramer, and I remember it had a Rockinger tremolo on it.

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.

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.

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.

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 have too many options when it comes to guitars.

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

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

My approach in 1999 was basically to play what I had, that was all I could do. At the time I was broke. I think I only had one guitar, a flametop green Jackson and I had these DC-10 Mesa Boogie heads. I think I had a cheap Shure wireless.

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

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

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

Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately.

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

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them.

I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

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

I tried a Les Paul when I was a lot younger. I tried the Les Paul, and because of the weight of the thing, it nearly dislocated my hip.