Carrie Brownstein Quotes

I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!

It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.

I'm a rock and roll kid, but to me, rock and roll isn't just four idiots banging their instruments really loud.

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to be a totally fascinating plank of wood with knobs and switches on it. I just had to have one.

When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe dances around.

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.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

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 play guitar, and it's not a prop.

There is nothing wrong about being a rock n' roll guitar player.

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

It's like being in a trance, like I get this electric current through my fingertips. Sometimes I shake. People say I look like Hendrix when I'm about to rip a solo because I move my shoulders like he does and do the chewing.

Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder, heavier, and faster than the traditional blues that I was listening to.

One of the key guitars in my career has been an early-Seventies Fender Telecaster Deluxe that I had before Sonic Youth started and that I played pretty much throughout Sonic Youth.

I've always been an acoustic guitar player, and I've pretty much continued to play acoustic guitar throughout all of the Sonic Youth periods. My material for Sonic Youth often started on acoustic guitar.

My first real real guitar I had was a Charvel, model 1 and that was when I was 15, I think, I got that.

I play the guitar.

Certainly that's what I like in a lot of the music that I listen to, kind of a sexual energy. Guitars and rock get it across best for me.

I play the guitar every day.

My dad loved Les Paul, and I wanted to be just like that.

I just knew I had to play the guitar.

I have a favorite blue Telecaster. It's an old '60-something, which I play at every show. That's probably my favorite all-around stage guitar.