My dad is actually an amazing guitarist, and he always had an incredible record collection, which is how I discovered things like Jimi Hendrix and Santana. I’ll always be grateful for that. Orianthi Read Quote
There’s a lot of players I look up to, and I hope that I can be a role model to young female guitar players. Hopefully they can believe in themselves more. Orianthi Read Quote
You go with what you ‘get,’ and I get playing the guitar. It’s a challenge because it’s not an easy instrument to play. There are so many interesting sounds you can make out of it and so many different elements. I dig it. Orianthi Read Quote
Being promoted as a bubble-gum type artist that has one hit and it’s all over is not something I want to do. I want a long career. I want to continue to play guitar and have as much guitar in there as possible in a commercial song without being too indulgent. Orianthi Read Quote
I play a PRS Custom 22. I learned on a Custom 24. It was set for a country guitarist, so it had a really high action. Orianthi Read Quote
I was inspired to play electric guitar from listening to a lot of Carlos Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and B.B. King, and that’s always been the kind of music that I gravitate toward. Orianthi Read Quote
