Aleksey Igudesman Quotes

The Fender Precision is my instrument, my beloved Precisions.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked at that giant monster and said to myself - I am not going to lock myself on that bench the whole day. This is small and lightweight. I can play from standing, sitting or walking.

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.

But I find that the keyboard is the complete instrument you know?

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

I never really trained to be a musician, but I've been playing guitar since I was around, like, 13 years old. For me, the guitar has always been the instrument that I've played. I play a little piano. I taught myself everything by ear. I don't read music at all, which has not really been a hindrance.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

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.

When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn't play lead, and I didn't have the gear.

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

When I was about 14, I got a tacky keyboard for 250 pounds and put on a drum machine and found I could write a song.

I think that's why so many school bands start on guitars: because they hide their mistakes with the distortion.

The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.

The cult of the instrument is O.K. for people who are mad about the guitar. But I love music. The guitar is just the instrument I happen to play.

What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset.

I wanted to play drums and if I didn't play drums, I wouldn't make music and drums are the foundation for what I do.