Rick Nielsen Quotes

I don't really collect guitars.

I don't really collect guitars like some musicians do.

My philosophy is, honestly, never collected anything that I don't play. I know a lot of people that collect guitars, but for me, I want instruments that I play. And if I don't play them, I don't' want to have them sitting in a closet collecting dust.

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 probably own 100 guitars and all of them are electric.

I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'

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

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

My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me a Conora electric guitar. It looked almost like a Gretsch. It cost $59, and my mom still has it.

I would say I am an amateur guitarist.

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

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 have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds.

How many guitars do I have? I don't know. I don't know! But I think the answer to it is, more than I can play at any one point in time. Even though I do have double necks, so I can try and play more than at one time!

My first guitar was a Les Paul that I bought off a friend for 500 bucks. I worked a long time to save up enough money for it.

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

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.

Almost 15 with music, we have so many guitars that we developed over the years. The latest one is 'The Majesty' guitar, which I'm really proud of.

I've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.

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.

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.'