Top 41 Rickenbacker Quotes
#1. I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.
John Fogerty
#2. I was working in a music store in London, and this particular place happened to be the importers for Rickenbacker guitars into England. So I started seeing these basses coming in.
Chris Squire
#3. I kept the first Rickenbacker I ever got, a little short-scale John Lennon-type model. And I've got a couple of 12-string models, which are really nice, and I've got a Pete Townshend model, which Pete gave me a few years ago. But that's about it.
Paul Weller
#4. I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.
Roger McGuinn
#5. Flying saucers are real. Too many good men have seen them, that don't have hallucinations.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#6. I am not such an egotist as to believe that God has spared me because I am I. I believe there is work for me to do and that I am spared to do it, just as you are.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#8. There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#10. Let the moment come when nothing is left but life, and you will find that you do not hesitate over the fate of material possessions.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#11. The biggest lesson I've learned ... was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#12. The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#13. Most of one's troubles in this world come from something inside one's self.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#14. Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#15. When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#16. I don't care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#18. I pay those guys to fly, so let them fly. I'll be damned if I'll pay them to just sit there.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#19. The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#20. The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#21. In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!
Eddie Rickenbacker
#23. I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#25. The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#26. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#31. When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#32. Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#33. I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#35. I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#36. Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#37. Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#38. The excitement of automobile racing did not compare with what I knew must come with aeroplane fighting in France.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#39. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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