Guitar Player Quotes

Guitar Player Quote of the day

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

I practiced two or three hours, sometimes none, sometimes six. It was very varied.

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

A good player can make any guitar sound good.

One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.

Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.

Guitar players never listen to lead singers.

To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you can even fathom when you're starting out.

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.

Forget about every other lesson in the book. You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.

... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard.

I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

At school I had a really hard time being a guitar player. It’s like being a male ballerina in a way. It’s not the norm.

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

The hole on the face of an acoustic guitar is called the sound hole. The one of the face of its player is called the sincerity hole.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.

I sit down with a guitar player and if there's a situation I feel strongly about, or a guy that I've been thinking about or if I'm mad at a guy, it comes out.

A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

In my first bands I was a singing guitar player, but if you heard any of those songs you wouldn't describe me as a singer. But I can make it work.

You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up

I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player.

I was a guitar player first off.

My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

I'll never be the best guitar player.

It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to !