Tim Brookes quotes

“First guitars tend to be like first loves: ill-chosen, unsuitable, short-lived and unforgettable.”
-- Tim Brookes

Source : Tim Brookes (2007). “Guitar: An American Life”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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“Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists”
-- Tim Brookes

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“A Guitar Store Is The Only Place In The Known Universe Where A Guy Will Allow Himself To Shop Like A Woman”
-- Tim Brookes

Source : Tim Brookes (1979). “Guitar: an American life”, p.4, Grove Press

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“A first killing is like your first love. You never forget it,”

“We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.”

“The stage is my first love.”

“Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.”

“The loving are the daring.”

“I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.”

“They say that your first love never dies. You can put out the flames, but not the fire.”

Source : Song: First Love

“I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.”

Source : Ace Frehley (2011). “No Regrets”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

“If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.”

“The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.”