Best Guitar Player Quotes

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

George Harrison

#2. People always lean toward who's the best guitar player, who's the best singer? I don't see it that way. They're all the best, you know? They've all gotten your attention, you've admired them, you've tried to sing like them. That makes them the best, each and every one of 'em.

Gregg Allman

#3. I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

Scott Ian

#4. I'll never be the best guitar player.

Chad Kroeger

#5. Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn't read a note.

Gregg Allman

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

Charley Pride

#7. 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 ...

Bob Dylan

#8. 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.

Guy Clark

#9. I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.

Chrissie Hynde

#10. I was just a kid in 1987 when I heard of the Pixies, the year after I graduated high school. But I had my band together, and my best friend at the time, Corey Hickock, who was the guitar player in the band that would become STP, Mighty Joe Young, turned me on to the Pixies.

Scott Weiland

#11. When I started out jumping around with a tennis racket, I never thought I would end up on a list of the best guitar players in the world. It makes me feel proud of the hard work I've put in.

Gary Hoey

#12. A good player can make any guitar sound good.

Mike Bloomfield

#13. So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and ... it's just OK.

Callie Thorne

#14. and I learned more at the hands of Carl Wilson than I learned from anybody else. He taught me a fuck of a lot of guitar playing. That man is a good guitar player.

Holly George-Warren

#15. Johnny Depp already seen how alcohol and drugs can get in the way of a career. And you have to remember one thing: Johnny was a guitar player and a rock-and-roller way before he was an actor. When he came to Los Angeles, he came with his band.

Alice Cooper

#16. I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something.

John Mayer

#17. I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.

Jonny Lang

#18. I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.

Randy Bachman

#19. I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

Rick Derringer

#20. I just want to be a better guitar player, really.

Colin Hay