Eric Clapton Quotes

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

I started playing the guitar when I was 14. I'm not superstitious about guitars, but I do need strings to be old because that's part of my sound, and I don't like steel strings.

I own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

As for the first guitar I actually bought, I believe it was a Cherry Red Kramer! I think I bought it because Eddie Van Halen played Kramer, and I remember it had a Rockinger tremolo on it.

Chromamatic' is actually about changing the strings on my guitar and tuning my guitar.

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

I play a replica of a banjo from the 1950s. It was the first commercial-style banjo in the United States so it's the first one that white people played.

A guitar is a guitar. Whether it was made yesterday or 51 years ago, if it's good, it will stand the test of time.

The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.

The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings.

When they invented the mandolin, it was as if they were trying to come up with the least efficient means of extracting noise from a piece of wood.

The lute I use has 10 courses and 19 strings, which is quite a lot of strings and a quite different fingerboard width from a classical guitar. I use a combination of flesh and nail when plucking the strings.

In my eyes, and in my opinion, the guitar is strong and powerful and will never die.

Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more versatile than people realise it to be. It's a beautiful instrument, very rhythmic and melodic. You can do anything with it.

The Fender Precision is my instrument, my beloved Precisions.

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.

My father had a sitar made for me that was half the size of a normal one.

Normally, I can get through a whole show with one guitar pick.

I collect as many acoustic guitars as I need for a specific purpose. Acoustic guitars are really just tools for me.

It takes a lifetime and a half to master the classical guitar.

My bass is my weapon.

I like to play acoustic slide. I like that. I just... I can do it, you know. But it ain't my cup of tea.

I actually have only one Jackson! ESP makes all of my guitars now. But that Jackson was probably the last one I paid for, which is why I used it so much; I had to get my money's worth. That's why, for the longest time, it was in all of our photos.