Orianthi Quotes

If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars aren't good for learning lead, because you can't play up very high on the neck and they take heavier-gauge strings which makes it hard to bend notes

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

I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.

Aww, come on man, I can barely handle 6 strings.

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

I couldn't not play a Les Paul guitar. Les always used to point to my Strat and say, 'Why do you have that piece of crap around your neck?' I'd say, 'Yours are too heavy. I had to drill holes in it.'

I'm not a guitar collector. I own some guitars because I play.

I do a very poor man's pedal steel on the Stratocaster.

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

The first guitar I ever owned was a Kay SG copy. That cost like $35. Man, that was a terrible guitar.

I used to play a lot of electric guitar. I don't really consider myself a guitar player anymore. Then I got really into how the pickups work. And winding and de-winding Telecaster pickups. And then building Telecasters. And I became more fascinated with making them than I was with actually playing them. So it's a slippery slope.

My guitar setup is inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't like, 'Hey, little lady, come strap on this here big guitar.' We took it in steps as much as possible.

When Ray Flacke came out, it was like 'What in the heck is this?' ... there's a guy who had that Tele players attitude, and he plugged straight into that amp with a delay, and it was unbelievable the way he would bend those big strings ... he was really unique.

I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

I love blues, mellow rock 'n' roll.

My main electric guitar belonged to Clarence White, the great guitarist for the Byrds.

I play acoustic when I need to play acoustic, and I say I'm probably a better acoustic player than I am electric.

Chet Atkins, I love his singer style and the country thing that he did. He really had a huge impact in my life, just his style - western swing and the country thing he did - it really changed my life.

I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!

When I was 14, I bought myself a cheap electric guitar and tried to teach myself.