Nuno Bettencourt Quotes

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 a born rock n' roll sax player.

I'm not a guitar hero.

I'm always playing guitar.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

I would have liked to grow up in Liverpool and become a rocker. I would have put my boots on, jeans and a leather jacket, and long hair and played the guitar.

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

I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do.

I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.

I play the guitar a little bit.

I was a guitar player first off.

I have this guitar on which I occasionally kill time making up rock n' roll lyrics.

I play the guitar.

It's actually not that hard to play guitar in a rock band.

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

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, and listening to, mostly because it was becoming a vehicle for a generation of guitarists - like Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. Mike Bloomfield. And that's what I wanted to be, principally: a guitar player.

I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.

You can't stop rock-n-roll!

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've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.

Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.

I'd love to have Jack White up. I think he's just a phenomenal guitar player. I'd love to see him play up close because he's got a killer voice, and he's a great lead player, too. That would be exciting to me.