Strat's Quotes

#1. There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine

Bonnie Raitt

#2. One of the inspirations for my becoming a writer was the baseball board game Strat-O-Matic.

H. G. Bissinger

#3. The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

Jeff Beck

#4. The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

Etgar Keret

#5. The evidence all points to the fact that we occupy not a well-mannered clockwork universe, but a destructive, violent, and hostile zoo.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes

Eddie Van Halen

#7. My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.

Dan Auerbach

#8. I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack, so I built one myself ... I wanted a Gibson type of sound but with a Strat vibrato .. I went to town painting it and I put three pickups back in, but they don't work - only the rear one works

Eddie Van Halen

#9. In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours. The god you worship is the god you deserve.

Joseph Campbell

#10. Cooper walked, slow and steady, four-four time in a world gone off measure.

Marcus Sakey

#11. A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster

Mark Knopfler

#12. There are very few things in the world I hate more than Daylight Savings Time. It is the grand lie of time, the scourge of science, the blight on biological understanding.

Michelle Franklin

#13. Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?

Hugh MacDiarmid

#14. Strat yearned to imagine her without even the thin white dress, but it would not be honorable, so he prevented himself from having such a fantasy.

Caroline B. Cooney

#15. I voted for you during your last election.

Mao Zedong

#16. I'm homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends.

Brittany Howard

#17. ...and he suddenly opened his eyes and stared straight ahead into an empty space till slowly we returned into view. I can make small talk, he said slowly, I can do that but out of the corner of my eye I can see the dark approaching.

Dermot Healy

#18. I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one.

John Petrucci

#19. She spilled your secrets," said Quinn
"Yeah?" He sliced off a piece of chicken and glanced across the table. "What's my name Becca?"
Busted. Becca wanted to melt into a puddle.
Quinn grinned. "You mean it's not really New Kid?

Brigid Kemmerer

#20. I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

Rick Springfield

#21. Dear Trixie,
Will you come to Memphis with me?
A) Yes
B) No
C) I'd go anywhere with you because you fuck like a goddamn fire hose.
D) You're an asshole and I never want to see you again.
Circle ONLY ONE and give it back to me when you're done eating.
Love, J

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#22. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

David Blaine

#23. The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Albert Schweitzer

#24. I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.

Ike Turner

#25. I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that there should be a really nice Strat around.

Nick Mason