Timothy B. Schmit Quotes

I got into rock music at thirteen, listening to Van Halen, learned how to play the electric guitar.

I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

I guess you'd say I'm a gearhead. It's not just guitars; I have five or six drum sets, a bunch of keyboards... It's like Guitar Center exploded, and all the cool stuff dropped in my backyard. I'm a really lucky guy, I have to admit.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry and Stray Cats.

I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard 'Baby One More Time' on the radio and I thought 'What is this?' I was eight and it changed my life.

When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15.

I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

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

I probably spent more time as a kid playing air guitar to Jimmy Page than any other guitar player.

As a young man growing up in that era, I was very influenced by Hendrix and took to a wah wah, and I learned how to really use one effectively as Hendrix did.

I've always appreciated more guitar-driven and, in general, just rock music; that's what I listen to. I don't really listen to electronic music.

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

I always wanted to make rock music as well or as an element of what I do.

In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.

I love blues, mellow rock 'n' roll.

I love to be able to put my hands on a keyboard, to have a guitar and a bass within reach, as well as all the effects.

A lot of kids bought guitars and started playing rock'n'roll because of us.

Everything I ever learned about rock, I learned from Led Zeppelin.

From the time I was 12 until I was 21, Chuck Berry was my favorite artist.

I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.

We started off as a garage band who played a lot of rock 'n' roll.