Top 36 Best Guitarists Quotes
#1. I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
B.B. King
#2. That big hit 'Get Lucky' is a disco song - not only the melody and the whole concept, but we had one of the great disco guys and one of the best guitarists ever, Nile Rodgers, to play on it. So that's great disco, but a modern disco, because it has great vocoders and synthesizers.
Giorgio Moroder
#3. An uninhibited, Chuck Berry devotee but experimented with and broke a lot of ground on feedback techniques and solid variations in tonal and dissonant utilizations. I'm one of the best guitarists in the world, and I play with great emotion.
Ted Nugent
#4. Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear ...
Joe Satriani
#5. A lot of blues guitarists play with only three fingers, and they can't figure out certain runs that require the use of their little fingers. Classical training is good for that.
Ritchie Blackmore
#6. The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity
Joe Perry
#7. Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.
Joe Pass
#8. I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.
Frank Gambale
#9. Some of the greatest guitarists, historically, have had no chops, they've just had great taste. I know a lot of musical school kids who just have no taste.
Kemp Muhl
#11. I hate to take showers! Guitarists don't like showers 'cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing more fluid.
Izzy Stradlin
#12. I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.
Kiefer Sutherland
#13. There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them.
Tommy Shaw
#14. The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.
Manuel De Falla
#15. Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.
Hugh Laurie
#16. Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.
Tina Weymouth
#17. I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that's a strong character, the stronger the person is.
Jimmy Page
#18. The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists ...
Jimmy Page
#19. My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always were a lot of guitarists around.
Lenny Breau
#20. The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.
Bulat Okudzhava
#21. I've liked country music for forever. And Buck Owens is just one of many country guitarists I like. I think Buck's Sixties records are really progressive.
Buzz Osborne
#22. When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.
Andres Segovia
#23. Drummers haven't managed to develop their individuality quite as well as guitarists have. We can be so focused on the nuts and bolts that we overlook the importance of individuality - the broader picture, if you will.
Bill Bruford
#24. I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!
B.B. King
#25. Andy Chase and I were keyboard players originally, and we became guitarists later. But it's fun for us to focus more on the keyboard stuff sometimes.
Adam Schlesinger
#26. Strangely enough, I wasn't into fast guitarists. I preferred Peter Green's subtle touch. I saw him with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers at the Marquee Club in London and was very impressed. He was the only guitarist I've ever seen to turn the volume control on his guitar down during a solo.
Alvin Lee
#27. Are you gonna sit back there and whack off or are you gonna give us a count? It's me and you to start, drummer boy. I'm ready when you are.
Shari Copell
#28. I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.
Lou Doillon
#29. Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.
Nick Cave
#30. It's definitely true that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my all-time favorite guitarists.
Kirk Hammett
#31. All the great guitarists have a spirit-a way they play and don't play.
Eddie Martinez
#32. Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.
John Frusciante
#33. I really wasn't needed ... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.
Jimmy Page
#34. But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.
John Fahey
#35. Among the guitarists, Wes Montgomery is fantastic. He's always good to let you know what the art form is all about. It's the same still life that everybody is painting, but in comes Wes Montgomery, and it's right there!
Bill Cosby
#36. Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.
Bryce Dessner
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