Fender Stratocaster Quotes

It was Jimi Hendrix that I first got into when Betty Mabry turned me on to him.

I like the wildness of Buddy Guy.

Dick Dale don't surf no more.

Man, Dick Dale shreds. He's welcomed to anybody's bar mitzvah.

I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.

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

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

I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster? Those are perfect designs, and there is nothing to add really.

Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.

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

A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster

Nothing could capture the sound of Dick Dale - he was too loud.

My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and a Gibson solid-body like an SG or a Les Paul. It contains all sounds of the basic classic rock n' roll guitars. It does what I want it to do.

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

The only thing I ever really wanted was a Strat .. I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix on TV the day he died...then I got Deep Purples' Fireball album which was also a big influence .. I have a collection of more than 200 of them that includes Strats from every year since March 1954 - the first month the Strat was made

I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.

My guitar setup is inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan.

I mainly use Stratocasters. I like a lot of different kinds of guitars, but for what I do, it seems that a Stratocaster is the most versatile. I can pretty much get any sound out of it, and I use stock pickups.

I'm very aware of what, say, electric guitar recordings in the '60s sounded like.