Music instrument Quotes

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

My dad had a guitar that he gave me. I went to Walmart and bought a chord chart and hung it up in my room, and I was just trying to figure out how to play the guitar and put words with what I was learning.

My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was hollow body, I could play it. So I kind of played on that for about a year, learning scales and all that. And here I am.

The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

I had an upright - it took me years and years to get enough bread to get it. I'm from Florida, so one morning I woke up, go in the corner, and the bass is in a hundred pieces 'cause the humidity is so bad. I mean, the upright just blew up. I said, 'Forget it, man. I can't afford this anymore.'

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.

I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but it's almost like you need both.

In 1965, Gibson made the red one I use now, and a black one, which was the first black 335 they ever made.

Give me a mandolin and I'll play you rock 'n' roll.

The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.

Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.

I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

I was reading a magazine when I was a little kid, probably about twelve years old, and an ad said that if you sell so many jars of Noxzema skin cream, we'll sell you a ukulele. So I went out and banged on doors in the snow in Quincy, Massachusetts, where I was raised, and I sold the skin cream.

I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do.

In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster.

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

When Mr. Ludwig invented the bass-drum pedal, that's what made the drum set possible.

I have one custom guitar which I play almost exclusively. I have others - sometimes you want a little texture, kind of a different sound or something.

I did buy an electric guitar while shooting 'Split.'

My first Gibson was a '91 Les Paul Custom tobacco burst. I still have it - it's still amazing-sounding - but it took me a long time of saving up to get that guy!

Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't you want to play guitar?