Rick Nielsen Quotes

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

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.

I've always liked the electric guitar better. Even though the acoustic can be a very sexy and mysterious instrument, I can go to way more places with an electric.

I've been playing electric guitar since I was 11, and I love the blues.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

I have one custom guitar which I play almost exclusively. I have others - sometimes you want a little texture, kind of a different sound or something.

I love guitars, and guitars love me, but sometimes they need new homes where they can live to rock another day.

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

Let's face it - the electric guitar is way sexier than the acoustic.

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

I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

It's a complicated relationship with a guitar. I love the Bullet, for sure.

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do.

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.

I play the guitar a little bit.

Really young kids are into guitars.