Fender Quotes

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

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

Dick Dale

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

Lenny Kravitz

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

Ritchie Blackmore

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 any more. So I went out, got a knife and took all the frets out of my Fender. That was it.

Jaco Pastorius

This beautiful-looking guy with a fur coat and mad, curly hair walked in. He went to the bar and got a pint of Guinness, then plugged in his Fender and began to sing. Everybody was completely blown away. Who was it? It was Jeff Buckley.

Jeff Buckley

I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

Ian Anderson (musician)

Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

Quincy Jones

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

Ross Lynch

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

Johnny Ramistella

The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender. (Johnny Ramistella)

In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster.

Johnny Ramistella

I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.

Lindsey Buckingham

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

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 track the fender was on the tire hard.

Sterling Marlin

The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and of sadness for his possessing nothing of the ten million minutes of that black-and-white scallop-edged existence save these few proofs.

Michael Chabon

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

Kurt Cobain

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.

Kurt Cobain

I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them.

Kurt Cobain

I don't think too much about the electronic thing, except that it's kind of fun to have it as an alternate voice. Like, I've used the Fender- Rhodes piano on a couple of records. I don't really look on it as a piano- merely an alternate keyboard instrument, that offers a certain kind of sound that's appropriate sometimes. I find that it's kind of a refreshing auxiliary to the piano- but I don't need it, you know. I guess it's for other people to judge how effective it's been on my records; I enjoyed it, anyway. I don't enjoy spending a lot of time with the electric piano. I mean, if I play it for a period of time, then I quickly tire of it, and I want to get back to the acoustic piano.

Bill Evans