KT Tunstall Quotes

I've always liked the electric guitar better. Even though the acoustic can be a very sexy and mysterious instrument, I can go to way more places with an electric.

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

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 always use my Les Paul. I have a Hamer as well. I use a Tele and an Esquire - once in a while, I will use a Strat, and I never use any pedals... except for in my car.

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.

But the guitar is my favorite, first and foremost instrument.

Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.

What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano.

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

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

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.

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

The electric guitar's a pretty cheesy thing when you think about it, still working on those bits of wire and magnets for its sound. It's all of the things that are wrong with it that have made it the unique instrument it is.

When it came to rock, I was always drawn to guitars.

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

My first guitar was a Gibson Challenger.

I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs... I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.

Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.