Tom Curren Quotes

I don't really collect guitars.

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

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

I've owned about 2,000 guitars through the years because I've traded a lot and given away and sold some stuff.

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.

I'm a kooky collector and own a couple of hundred guitars.

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

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

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.

I dreamed of having a Gibson. I had a cheap Kent - you know, a Japanese guitar - and then a Kanora, a Japanese guitar. I borrowed a friend's Harmony for years. To have a Gibson was really, really my dream as a kid.

I've become a ukulele hoarder.

Some people collect this or that. I'm a musician; I collect guitars.

I'm a Telecaster connoisseur, and I love my Teles. I have one from almost every year since the very beginning, in 1950. I'm so obsessed with them.

I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one.

I don't know what it would be like to actually play guitar. I've toured with a lot of comedians and it's never been like it is for a rock band.

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

I love my Fender Rhodes. It's been a part of my family since that keyboard came out, and I've had it reworked so that it's in the best condition it's actually ever been in. That is my baby.

One of the things I've heard musicians say that's true is, 'I would play for free. I would play music forever, but you have to pay me to travel.' I know we're always going to make music. The traveling part - that is the most wear and tear on any human.

I just knew I had to play the guitar.

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

My aunt Maxie had a plastic guitar in her closet, and I started playing that, going nuts on it. I went to stay with my dad, and he saw how much I was into it, and I put my first guitar on layaway. It was a Kay Starter Series guitar and Gorilla amplifier.

I play a little but also like to keep the guitars around for when friends come over.

I collect as many acoustic guitars as I need for a specific purpose. Acoustic guitars are really just tools for me.

I got a little baby grand piano off Craigslist for, like, $500. It's a beautiful instrument that you hear on a bunch of the songs. That's that piano on 'Keep Your Name' and 'Work Together' and 'Little Bubble.'