A Quote by Pat Smear

I probably own 100 guitars and all of them are electric.

Pat Smear

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Electric Guitars Own Them

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Pat Smear
American - Musician
Born: August 5, 1959

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

Andres Segovia

I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.

Dave Matthews

My father played one of the first electric guitars in England. He built his own in 1940, because you couldn't buy them in those days. He used three telephone pickups under the strings, which gave chronic distortion on chords but was quite good on single notes.

Julian Bream

I saw a band called The Electric Guitars, from Bristol. I described them to Roland, and he just started playing a riff on guitar and said, 'Do they sound like this?' And they did.

Curt Smith

There are no electric guitars. 'Hunchback' has arias; it's operatic.

Dennis DeYoung

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

Dan Fogelberg

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

David Lee Roth

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. But after a while, I realized that it's important to embrace things that are available in your time, and try to do something different with them.

Beck

The problem is that once I start on a song and get a rough idea of where I might go with an arrangement, I try dozens, sometimes hundreds, of different things on a song. The bass, the backing guitars, the lead guitars, the keyboards. It's a long process. It's like 100 steps forward and 99 steps back.

Tom Scholz

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

Beck

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way

Dan Fogelberg

To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.

Clarence Clemons

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

Dan Fogelberg

Capital punishment, that thing scares me, it really does. I was talking to my friend about the electric chair, and he starts freakin' out. He's like 'the electric chair? That's too good for these people. That's too good for them'. Alright, how do we make the electric chair worse? How about this? They have to pedal a car battery to their own head. Is that ok? Is that enough, Mr. Hitler?

Dave Attell

I contend that if it wasn't for Jimi, the gadgets we use for electric guitars now wouldn't have happened. He was an inventor, in a sense - as well as being great artist.