Instrument Repair Quotes

You know, I write songs, I repair guitars.

I've had to replace parts in the basses when they've gotten old or worn out, so everything isn't absolutely original.

I've got holes in my guitar.

The flukey part of it is, back in the early days, I had that guitar decorated with all kinds of crap wallpaper, 'Flower Power' - then that got all shaved off. And during the course of cleaning the bass up again, some of the wood got shaved down, and it probably became a lighter body than the stock factory model.

I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.

I want to get an handful of spare basses to use first of all if mine breaks, and second, to learn some things about aspects of basses that I like, so Paul can build those aspects into it.

There are a whole bunch of instruments I'd like to build.

It's pretty traumatic knowing that your instrument that's your career isn't working, and you've got to have an operation.