Guitarist Quotes

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

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

Over the years I hope I've become more of a musican and less of a guitarist.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I've ever heard.

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

In my opinion I do not think I am a better guitarist than Ace, I honestly think we're both different, and we both brought something unique to the musical.

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.

Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.

I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist.

I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.

I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.

Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.

Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.

I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.

Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.

Learn the lick, but learn FROM the lick.

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

My interests are guitars, cars, and vacation. I've been playing guitar all my life. My dad was a professional guitarist, but I'm terrible, which lets me off the hook, so I just play for myself.

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.

All the different styles I've played have really helped me as a guitarist and helped me develop my own way of playing.

If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.

I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia (former Grateful Dead guitarist) destroyed his life on drugs. And yet hes being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks.

I think Ace is a great guitarist, and with the four original members of KISS, there's a magic and chemistry that you just can't touch.

I started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-'60s - a conga drum and another guitarist. And that's been mostly what I've worked with most of the time.

I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist.

There is no finer guitarist than Kenny Burrell

But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.

I'm more of a strumming guitarist, instead of a lead soloist guitarist.

I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.