Jon Taffer Quotes

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

I have limited interests. I really like all sorts of gear. Guitar gear. Recording gear. Stuff like that. I like music, you know.

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

I've played everything but a harp.

I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

I love to talk about the drums and music. I started playing drums when I was probably six and played a lot until I was about ten or eleven years old. So, I guess five or six years where I played. I had a drum set at home, and I would just bang on it. I'd even go on the Internet and study basic beats and so forth.

My little brother played drums, so we had a drum set over at my house.

When I was about 17 or 18, I would go through my boy's garage and they had a little studio set up. I would just play around there.

When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.

I've got holes in my guitar.

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.

When I am not recording, I do live shows or am at home catching up on shows which I regularly watch. But there will always be some music around me.

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

When I'm at home or in the studio, I have a 1963 Martin. It's a D-28, and I love that guitar. I write on that guitar, and it's the first guitar that I put a pickup in and ran through an amplifier, splitting the signal to the amplifier and a DI or in the studio mic'ing it traditionally and putting an amp in the other room.

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my garage.

Both my brothers are drummers.

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever.

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

I still believe guitars will be around as long as there's rock music.

When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.