Fender Quotes

#1. 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

#2. You banged a priest last night, didn't you?"
"Yup."
One of the elderly women behind them gasped in shock. Griffin turned around and gave her an apologetic smile.
"She banged a Prius last night," Griffin whispered to her. "Fender bender. She's still a little shook up about it.

Tiffany Reisz

#3. He settled deeper into the armchair and put his feet up on the fender. It was bliss, it was eternity. Suddenly, as one sometimes does with a book of which one knows that one will ultimately read and reread very word, he opened it at a different place and found himself at the third chapter.

George Orwell

#4. I'm using Fender Twin Reverbs and Fender Blues Devilles on stage.

Ike Turner

#5. It's really cool what you can do with a guitar and a Fender Twin and a space echo.

Tamaryn

#6. The truth is I dislike cars. Whenever I drive a car, I have the feeling I have become invisible. People on the street cannot see you; they only watch your rear fender until it is out of their way.

Walker Percy

#7. I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic.

Patti Smith

#8. 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

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

Kurt Cobain

#10. The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.

Johnny Rivers

#11. 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

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

Lenny Kravitz

#13. And the dog by the fender stretched himself out in the luxuriant vacancy of mind only known to dogs surrounded by a happy group of their friends.

Christopher Morley

#14. I called Leo Fender, the dead guy, a dork. Now I'll never get an endorsement.

Kurt Cobain

#15. If you drive the same car as me, and have been in a fender bender, I'll think, "Boy, that's what my car could look like." Same with clones. If one of my clones got beat up, I'll think, "Boy, that could have been me. Better me squared than me.

Jarod Kintz

#16. 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

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

Johnny Rivers

#18. 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

#19. You could have knocked me down with a fender.

Jane Ace

#20. Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, 'Be fruitful, and multiply'. But not in those words.

Woody Allen

#21. Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.

Jackson Browne

#22. 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

#23. I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt combo with Marshall cabs.

J Mascis

#24. 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

#25. With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.

Rodney Dangerfield

#26. 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

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

Betty Rollin

#28. God can use anyone, for sure. If you can shred on a Fender or won "Best Personality," you're not disqualified-it just doesn't make you more qualified.

Bob Goff

#29. Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible.

John Mayer

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

Ritchie Blackmore

#31. 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

#32. Steve and I caught Neil Young promoting his first solo album, his signature black Gibson plugged into a tiny Fender amp, blowing out the walls of the Bitter End.

Bruce Springsteen

#33. If you can shred on a Fender or won 'Best Personality,' you're not disqualified - it just doesn't make you more qualified. You see, God usually chooses ordinary people like us to get things done.

Bob Goff

#34. I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend.

Bruce Springsteen

#35. I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.

Lindsey Buckingham

#36. When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blown away. They couldn't believe the sound. I said, 'See, gentlemen, the world is no longer flat.'

Dick Dale

#37. 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.

Suzi Quatro

#38. The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.

John Lasseter

#39. I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

Freddy Fender

#40. My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

Freddy Fender

#41. If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.

Leo Fender

#42. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

Freddy Fender

#43. He loves you with perfect love that heals the heart and mends the holes that life leaves behind.

Mandy Fender

#44. I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

Leo Fender

#45. Become broken in your flesh so that your spirit may receive the true love that was always meant to be in your life. His love will heal the ugly, bitter, painful brokenness and replace it with the beauty of real love.

Mandy Fender

#46. Make sure you're standing on the right soap box.

Stephen A. Fender

#47. I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

Freddy Fender

#48. Jesus takes those pieces that other people have broken and makes your heart whole again. His love fills the void that other people leave behind. His love is the only love that could ever truly make you whole. The love that comes from God will never leave you broken-hearted.

Mandy Fender

#49. In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.

Freddy Fender

#50. If you don't fight for your faith, you will lose it. Your faith is worth fighting for, Lennox.

Mandy Fender

#51. I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

Freddy Fender

#52. The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

Leo Fender

#53. Often we have too many distorted takes on love because of the way everyone else represents it.

Mandy Fender

#54. Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

Freddy Fender

#55. Know who God is and you will know what love is.

Mandy Fender

#56. I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

Freddy Fender

#57. Life will break you, but God will mend you and make you stronger through it all.

Mandy Fender

#58. No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person,

Leo Fender

#59. Let there be bass.

Leo Fender

#60. Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

Freddy Fender

#61. Your world won't fall apart when Jesus is the One holding it together.

Mandy Fender

#62. God can turn a life that is broken into a thing of beauty.

Mandy Fender

#63. I would rather serve God and displease my flesh than serve my flesh and displease God.

Mandy Fender

#64. They wanted to start recording rock 'n roll, and thought I had the right voice.

Freddy Fender