Fender Quotes

My brother was the first in Lancaster to have a Fender Stratocaster.

— John Waite

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

— Ritchie Blackmore

You could have knocked me down with a fender.

— Jane Ace

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves…

— Robin Trower

I guess everybody saw it. It's a deal where I'd been racing cars a long time and I knew going around the…

— Sterling Marlin

I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for…

— Ross Lynch

I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I really like the Budda head with a big Orange cabinet with Celestion 30 speakers and my '63 Fender Telecaster.

— Nancy Wilson

There are a couple records that really helped aid the imagery of 'Stick Season,' Sam Fender's 'Seventeen Going Under,' for one.

— Noah Kahan

I've been playing a Fender since 1963, and before that it was my dream guitar. I can't endorse it more than that.

— Rory Gallagher

I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul…

— Frank Stallone

The first guitar I ever picked up was an acoustic black Fender, so it makes perfect sense that Elias plays Fender guitars.…

— Elias

Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939…

— Quincy Jones

When I play live, I use a Fender Super Reverb and I have Derek's old, well, actually it's Eric Clapton's old Beano…

— Susan Tedeschi

The Les Paul was more challenging because of the weight of it, but the tone was there that the Fender will never…

— Jeff Beck

I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still…

— Suzi Quatro

One of the key guitars in my career has been an early-Seventies Fender Telecaster Deluxe that I had before Sonic Youth started…

— Lee Ranaldo

When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blown away. They couldn't believe…

— Dick Dale

It's not too hard to play Fender Rhodes keyboard if you get the right one, with some good action on the keys.…

— D'Angelo

“There was no compassion or courtesy: fender jammed against fender, they drove on. I understood it: anybody who gave an inch would…

— Charles Bukowski

In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster.

— Johnny Rivers

I did splash out on a 1964 Fender Jaguar guitar in L.A.

— Tom Walker

I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.

— Lindsey Buckingham

The Fender Precision is my instrument, my beloved Precisions.

— Steve Harris

I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.

— Kurt Cobain

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.

— Woody Allen

[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.

— Betty Rollin

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

— Anonymous

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they…

— Kurt Cobain

I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt…

— J Mascis

My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk…

— Joe Perry

I love my Fender Rhodes. It's been a part of my family since that keyboard came out, and I've had it reworked…

— Flying Lotus

So, I went to see No Doubt play on March 14, 1987 at the show at Fender's Ballroom in Long Beach, California.…

— Tony Kanal

Ever since I was a kid, I've been a Fender connoisseur. And to have my name associated with greatness like that, it's…

— John 5