Jack Garratt Quotes

It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

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'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.

The only way you can get Scotty Moore's tone is with a big hollowbody guitar.

My basic setup is my Ibanez Fireman guitars and for pedals, the TC Electronic MojoMojo is the mainstay of my board, along with a Catalinbread Calissto Chorus.

Jimi Hendrix is one of the main influences on why I wanted to play guitar. He really shook me. I think it was his whole style - the look and what he did with the guitar.

Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.

I guess I would call my music 'blues punk.' There's a lot of influences.

I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

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

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.

I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.

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 was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

I've always loved the guitar. You see Jimi Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth, and OK, you know you're never going to be able to do that, but I always wanted to play an instrument of some sort.

I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.

I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

I've always been a fan of Buddy Guy as a guitarist, as well as Stevie Ray Vaughan and those blues guys. I'd say those are pretty big influences on me.

I like the wildness of Buddy Guy.

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

I was inspired to play electric guitar from listening to a lot of Carlos Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and B.B. King, and that's always been the kind of music that I gravitate toward.