I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world. — Paul Reed Smith Copy Share Image
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
It's insane for me to say this, but I've never been in a room with anyone that's more talented on the electric… — Tim Commerford Copy Share Image
“Vitaly owns half a carton of Lucky Strikes, an electric guitar, and a hangover” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar. — Sam Endicott Copy Share Image
The electric guitar's a pretty cheesy thing when you think about it, still working on those bits of wire and magnets for… — Allan Holdsworth Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing.… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
When I first started playing, I definitely had a younger scum-punk crowd, but as my music developed more and after I started… — Lydia Loveless Copy Share Image
“He also got two black sweaters he might actually wear, some Avon cologne in a bottle shaped like an electric guitar, and… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
It took me a while to get an electric guitar and a bass and amps and stuff. Playing the acoustic guitar was… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
As a guitarist and a lot of the times as a singer, I don't feel that comfortable and you really feel that… — Stephen Kellogg Copy Share Image
The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
There are some superficial things that connect me to the stream. There's instrumentation, there's timbre, use of electronics, the way that samples… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
My dreams are always quite attainable, I wouldn't like to spend a lot of money on a car. I've got a mental… — Russell Kane Copy Share Image
Jimi Hendrix came on TV on this documentary and it was this African-American soulful black guy, playing an electric guitar, which I'd… — Michael Kiwanuka Copy Share Image
I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different… — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little… — Ace Frehley Copy Share Image
My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and… — George Benson Copy Share Image
I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or… — John 5 Copy Share Image
On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C,… — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm so used to knowing what to do with an electric guitar and amplifier, but with an acoustic guitar, it's different, but… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then… — Glenn Hughes Copy Share Image
When do you suppose the electric guitar was invented? If you thought the 1950s, you'd be wrong. If you can muster a… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Yes, there were piano bands and great rock pianists, from Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard to Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, and… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
I think I said something like 'it's the end of the electric guitar era'. Looking back, maybe it was a bad idea,… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry… — Michael Bamberger Copy Share Image
I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since… — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
A Herd of Turtles' is the only song on 'Behold Electric Guitar' that is not strictly instrumental. But instead of singing, I… — Paul Gilbert Copy Share Image
Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image