Justin Chancellor Quotes

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

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

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.

With Harley, you build it, then you've got to take it apart.

It sounds boring, but I'm such a guitar junkie and a gear junkie. I'm always fiddling with my stuff. It's relaxing to me... I'm always pulling my stuff apart, getting my pedal board out and fiddling with it or changing guitar strings.

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

I mainly use Stratocasters. I like a lot of different kinds of guitars, but for what I do, it seems that a Stratocaster is the most versatile. I can pretty much get any sound out of it, and I use stock pickups.

I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it.

I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

I want to get an handful of spare basses to use first of all if mine breaks, and second, to learn some things about aspects of basses that I like, so Paul can build those aspects into it.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

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

What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano.

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

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.

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 never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

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

I'm not a big car person. I'm not into lots of fancy things.

I ended up starting guitar because I didn't want to just be the lead singer.